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.
ABBIE HOFFMANI was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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 ’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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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