There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANUsually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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