It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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