black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Abbie Hoffman

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Inspirational Life Revolution Support Truth Way
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Commitment Dope Drinking Hanging Smoking
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Political Produce Random Rock
The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Accepting Challenge Community Essence Individual Nation Revolution Successful
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
In 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 HOFFMAN

Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
Democracy 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 HOFFMAN

Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Depression Form Individual Nostalgia Society
..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 HOFFMAN

Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Revolution Second
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

Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
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

Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Detail Image Important Right

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abbie Hoffman Quotes