Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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• Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
• It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
• 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.
• What if when they called a war, no one went?
• Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun.…
• 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…
• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
• The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
• Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
• 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…
• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal…
• The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
• It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
• 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…
• Fantasy is the only truth.
• 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…
• Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

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