What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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