To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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..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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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