In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
ABBIE HOFFMANTo 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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 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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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