Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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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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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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