I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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