Abbie Hoffman Quotes

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

Dead men have no victory.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

My God, it is all over.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

You should despair and run away.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.