Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANEvery rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANRandom political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANAction is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMANIn this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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 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 HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMANA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy 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 HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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 HOFFMANMy critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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