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.
ABBIE HOFFMANA 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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