The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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