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.
ABBIE HOFFMANA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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