Abbie Hoffman's Quotes

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.