I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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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.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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