Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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 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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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