Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANNostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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