Abbie Hoffman Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.

People appreciate anyone who takes chances - they like a bit of flair.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.

The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

Boldness in itself is genius.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.