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 HOFFMANUnderstand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
More Abbie Hoffman 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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE 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 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 -
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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 -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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