The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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