Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANFree speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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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 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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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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