Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMANLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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..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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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