If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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