Abbie Hoffman Quotes
Anti-War Activist
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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.
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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.
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.
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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.
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.
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.
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.
There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.