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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.

Abbie Hoffman

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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Done Everyone Much Want Way
Fantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Dig Fantasy Manslaughter Mirror Sale State
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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Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
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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Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
..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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society
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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Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Complicated Concept Gobbles Lamb Lips Peace Wipe

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