Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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