My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMANMy critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMANUnderstand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMANI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMANI 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 HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMANI was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMANLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere 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 HOFFMANWouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
ABBIE HOFFMANToday is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMANOnce you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMANPeace 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 HOFFMANFantasy is the only truth.
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