Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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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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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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