Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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