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Abbie Hoffman Inspirational Quotes (55)

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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. 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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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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