Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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