Хоффман, Эбби цитаты

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„Похоже, я был единственным революционером, которого называли милым.“

„Курить травку и вешать портрет Че Гевары на стенку - обязательство сродни питью молока и коллекционированию почтовых марок.“

„Если этот парень - Бог, то это тот Бог, которого заслуживают Соединенные Штаты Америки.“

„Мы были молоды, мы были безрассудны, высокомерны, глупы, упрямы...и мы были правы! Я ни о чем не жалею!“

„Структура важнее, чем содержание в передаче информации.“

„В Нации Вудстока нет писателей - только поэты-воины.“

„Ваши университеты учат вас быть вечными циниками, цинизм, который можно утопить только в алкоголе, таблетках для похудения, психоаналитиках и гольфе. Забудьте о своем цинизме. Нет такого человека, который уважает жизнь больше, чем революционер.“

„Битлз могут быть популярнее, чем Иисус, но такие тяжеловесы, как Мао Цзедун, Хо Ши Мин и красивый длинноволосый Че Гевара более популярны, чем Битлз.“

„Вы спрашиваете: «А как насчет безучастных наблюдателей?» Но ведь это времена революции. Если вы наблюдатель, значит вы не безучастны.“

“It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond the-one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, the modern plantation of agro-buinsess, or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgement to decide exactly who is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit. Capitalism is license to steal; the government simply regulates who steals an how much. I always wanted to put together an outlaw handbook that would help raise consciousness on these points while doing something about evening the score. There was also the challenge of testing the limits of free speech.”

“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”

“You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.”

“If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.”

“Some day we too will fly off in some communal capsule, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Hippies, liberated women, young workers on the line, and G. I.'s sitting in stockades because they don't want to go to Vietnam. There will be a whole mess of us laughing and getting stoned on our way to OUTERSPACE, and the first thing we're gonna do out there is to rip down that fuckin flag on the moon.”

“In Woodstock Nation there are no writers—only poet-warriors.”

“It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.”

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

“I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.”

“Every group was broke cause the liberal bulge that used to support most radical causes was off on some other trip, playing around with anti-ABM campaigns and sending food to Biafra. Even though they wept and shed some blood in the streets of Chicago, they were gone for good - gone with their money. Our revolution was becoming too radical or crazy or violent or young. We were fuckin up their cocktail parties and it mattered not the blood we were shedding or the growing fascism in the country. New ways had to be found to get bread cause the days of the mailings and benefits were over. In fact, for the Yippies, they had never even begun.”

“For a revolution, in order to be a true revolution, must be a world revolution. To achieve that world revolution, you the children of the Yankees must lend a hand. You must vomit forth your cynicism in the streets of your cities. You must mount an unrelenting attack on everything the bastards that rule your country hold dear. You must refuse to serve in their armies, you must reject the heroin offered in their universities, you must become clogs in their productive machines.”

“Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicism. There is not one who has more respect for life than a revolutionist.”