Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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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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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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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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!
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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