There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMANI was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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