A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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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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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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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