Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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?
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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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