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
important information structure
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
wind government trying
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
hair long support
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.
inspirational-life support way
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
hippie political liberty
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
reality morality action
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
music sex rocks
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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.
people wish language
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
actors scripts needs
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
way done want
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
fantasy
Fantasy is the only truth.
crazy winning people
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.
random-violence molotov-cocktail rocks
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?