It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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 HOFFMANLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANBecome 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 HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANStructure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANIf you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMAN..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
ABBIE HOFFMANFantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMANUsually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
ABBIE HOFFMANExpedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhat if when they called a war, no one went?
ABBIE HOFFMAN