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1. "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." ~ Abbie Hoffman
2. "Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?" ~ Abbie Hoffman
3. "Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more acommitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps." ~ Abbie Hoffman
4. "Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, "We want it now, in our lifetime. " We want to see apartheid in South Africa come down right now. We want to see the war in Central America stop right now. We want the CIA off our campus right now. We want an end to sexual harassment in our communities right now. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now." ~ Abbie Hoffman
5. "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!" ~ Abbie Hoffman
6. "Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent." ~ Abbie Hoffman
7. "The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great." ~ Abbie Hoffman
8. "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." ~ Abbie Hoffman
9. "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." ~ Abbie Hoffman
10. "I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars." ~ Abbie Hoffman
11. "Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire." ~ Abbie Hoffman
12. "Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." ~ Abbie Hoffman
13. "When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out." ~ Abbie Hoffman
14. "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." ~ Abbie Hoffman
15. "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." ~ Abbie Hoffman
16. "A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station." ~ Abbie Hoffman
17. "Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law." ~ Abbie Hoffman
18. "Once you get the right image the details aren't that important." ~ Abbie Hoffman
19. "The only way to support a revolution is to make your own." ~ Abbie Hoffman
20. "Never impose your language on people you wish to reach." ~ Abbie Hoffman
21. "Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." ~ Abbie Hoffman
22. "I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute." ~ Abbie Hoffman

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