Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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

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

"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."

"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."

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

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

"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."

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

"I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."

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

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

"There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish."

"The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."

"I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn."

"I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors."