The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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 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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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