Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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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 essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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