I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
ABBIE HOFFMAN
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Abbie Hoffman57 quotes“I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.”
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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 HoffmanAbbie Hoffman It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie 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 HoffmanAbbie Hoffman 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 HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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