Abbie Hoffman on compulsory
Abbie Hoffman57 quotes“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
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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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker As far as I know, this is the only Muslim country where this is true. There is compulsory education for girls from the age of 5.
Bernard LewisBernard Lewis Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.
Liz TrussLiz Truss Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards Deming There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Haters are compulspory part of the growth of your business.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet
