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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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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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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You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you dont have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I dont know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I dont know how much I pay in taxes. – Haruki Murakami

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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But theres a lot of good that could happen. We shouldnt let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. – Ian MacKaye

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Its a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of Late Home Tonight, where theres Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. – Roger Waters

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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think theyre really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I dont see how you can be like that. – Amanda Bynes

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Peace is its own reward. – Mahatma Gandhi

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