Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANExpedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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