All Abbie Hoffman Quotes
- Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well. Action
- It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful. Gotten
- 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. Educate
- What if when they called a war, no one went? Called
- Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? Cocktail
- Wouldn'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.… Compliment
- Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an… Amerika
- Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. Content
- It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. All
- The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. Breakfast
- Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less. Actor
- 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… All
- It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal… Aged
- The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it. College
- It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. Best
- When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Decorum
- 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… Always Throughout
- Fantasy is the only truth. Fantasy
- I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can… Feeling
- Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock? Acts
- If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. Awfully
- The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. Cheap
- 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… Activism
- You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Assimilated
- To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally… Brother