Quote by Abbie Hoffman
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, no

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

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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

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Death
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. – Abbie Hoffman

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legal
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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. – Abbie Hoffman

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Society
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Freedom
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. – Ma Jian

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Freedom

China has to go along with world trends. Thats democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. – Dalai Lama

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Freedom

But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson

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Freedom

Ive come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. – George McGovern

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Freedom

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No one likes to have less than they had before. Thats the nature of the human animal. – Joni Mitchell

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell

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I dont like Paris so much, and its only eight shows. I mean, dont tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks theyre so important. And Im sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important. – Gisele Bundchen

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Happiness