Abbie Hoffman

Activist

52 Quotes

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

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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

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

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

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

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

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