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.
ABBIE HOFFMANFantasy is the only truth.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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