Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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