Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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.
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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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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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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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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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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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