If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
-
-
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
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 -
The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMAN