Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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.
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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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