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A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.
— Mark Kurlansky
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
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.
— Abbie Hoffman
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.
— Abbie Hoffman
Fantasy is the only truth.
— Abbie Hoffman
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
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
— Abbie Hoffman
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
— Abbie Hoffman
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
— Abbie Hoffman
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
— Abbie Hoffman
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
— Abbie Hoffman
Sacred Cows make the BEST Hamburger
— Abbie Hoffman
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
— Abbie Hoffman
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
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
— Abbie Hoffman
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
— Abbie Hoffman
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.
— Abbie Hoffman
What if when they called a war, no one went?
— Abbie Hoffman
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
— Abbie Hoffman
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
— Abbie Hoffman
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
— Abbie Hoffman
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
— Abbie Hoffman
It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
— Abbie Hoffman
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.
— Abbie Hoffman
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. — Abbie Hoffman
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. — Abbie Hoffman
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
— Abbie Hoffman
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
— Abbie Hoffman
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.
— Abbie Hoffman
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.
— Abbie Hoffman
The 60's are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
— Abbie Hoffman
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
— Abbie Hoffman