It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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.
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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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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 first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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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 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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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