Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
ABBIE HOFFMANI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
-
-
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 HOFFMAN -
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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 -
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
What if when they called a war, no one went?
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Fantasy is the only truth.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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 -
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 -
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
The 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 HOFFMAN -
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMAN