I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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