Quotes By Abbie Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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.

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

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.

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

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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

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.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

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

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