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 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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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..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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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