A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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