Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMANIn 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!
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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