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.
ABBIE HOFFMANNostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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.
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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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