Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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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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