Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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 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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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