Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANPeace 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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