Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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.
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