Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
ABBIE HOFFMAN
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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 HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman
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Yves Saint LaurentYves Saint Laurent Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range.
Al RiesAl Ries My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens.
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