You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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 first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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 learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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