Abbie Hoffman Quotes (20 quotes)

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„Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.“
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„Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.“
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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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„The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.“
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„I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.“
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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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„When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.“
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„Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.“
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„Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.“
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„To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.“
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„A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.“
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„The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.“
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„I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.“
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„Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.“
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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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„Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.“
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„The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.“
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„You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.“
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„The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.“
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Abbie Hoffman
Author born: November 30, 1936
Author died: April 12, 1989
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Activist

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