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  • Social Activist
  • 1936 - 1989
  • 66 quotes

Abbie Hoffman, Social Activist (1936 - 1989), is quoted 66 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Political, People, Revolutionary and Winning.

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Fantasy is the only truth.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

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

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

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.

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 win.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

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 immoral.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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 peace at all.

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

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.

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