It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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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 embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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