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.
ABBIE HOFFMANI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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