The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANI just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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