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There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Being Between Difference Never Selfish Will

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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Avoid Dope Needle Nixon Only Richard Richard Nixon Shooting Worth

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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.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Cheap Dope Free Gone Great Never Rock Rock And Roll Roll Sex Will

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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.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Decade Embedded Fixed Human Human Spirit Ideology Nor Particular Perpetual Process Revolution Something Spirit

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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.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Become Corporate Death Guard Learn Life Machines Make Particular Respect Robots Sterile Them War

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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.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Brother Empire Equally Evil Immoral Institutions Pig Pillars Sister Steal

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Democracy Freedom Gives Measure You

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Believe Cannibalism Compulsory Eat Forced More People Wars Were Would I Believe I Believe In

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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Decorum Dignity Free Free Men Men Only Out Repression Speak

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I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Acts Going Order Planet Say Survive To Survive Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: November 30th, 1936

Died: April 12th, 1989

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