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

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  • Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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  • If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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  • A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
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  • 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.
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  • Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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  • Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
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  • I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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  • 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.
    Tikkun (July-August 1989)
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  • I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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  • It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
    Steal This Book (1971) Introduction
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  • My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
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  • Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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  • Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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  • 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.
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  • Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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  • The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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  • The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
    Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)
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  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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  • 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.
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  • The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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What are the most famous quotes from Abbie Hoffman?

The two most famous quotes from Abbie Hoffman are:

  • "Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."
  • "If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good."

When did Abbie Hoffman live?

Abbie Hoffman was born in 1936 and died in the year 1989.