The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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 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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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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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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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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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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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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