It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMANI was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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