Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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