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 HoffmanSmoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
Abbie HoffmanLife-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
Abbie HoffmanIt is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, โWe want it now, in our lifetime.โ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
Abbie Hoffman