Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman

American political and social activist

Lived from: 1936 - 1989

Category: Politics

Born: 30 november 1936 Died: 12 april 1989

Quotes 1 till 20 of 26.

1 2 Next 
  • Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
    +1
  • If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
    +1
  • A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • 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
    - +
     0
  • Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Source: Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
    Source: Steal This Book (1971) Introduction
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
    Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • 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
    - +
     0
  • Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
    Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • 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.
    ― Abbie Hoffman
    - +
     0
  • 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
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All Abbie Hoffman famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors