Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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..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.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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