Fantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMAN..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Usually 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.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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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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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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