Abbie Hoffman

Activist

52 Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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