It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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 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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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