Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations.. view

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger... view

By: Abbie Hoffman

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... view

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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... view

By: Abbie Hoffman

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... view

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman

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

By: Abbie Hoffman