It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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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.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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