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.

—Abbie Hoffman

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About Abbie Hoffman

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Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.

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It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,… or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.

—Abbie Hoffman

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

—Abbie Hoffman

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 win.

—Abbie Hoffman

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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

—Abbie Hoffman

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Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

—Blaise Pascal

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Flowers… put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining.… They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will.

—J. Rambosson

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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

—Abraham Lincoln

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