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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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.
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..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.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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