Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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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.
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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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