Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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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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..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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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