Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMANUnderstand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMANExpedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMANI just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
ABBIE HOFFMANA revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMANEvery rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANTo 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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANNostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhen decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMANHep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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.
ABBIE HOFFMANA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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