Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffmanwas an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1936
CityWorcester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
advice cows sacred
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
anger keys people
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
actors scripts needs
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
people wish language
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
men speaks-out dignity
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
nostalgia individual form
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
dirty kids four
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
reality morality action
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
hippie political liberty
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
inspirational-life support way
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
real kids dope
In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
fighting winning thinking
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.
rocks political politics
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
mean ideas bullshit
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.