If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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