Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
– Abbie Hoffman
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
– 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.
– Abbie Hoffman
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
– Abbie Hoffman
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
– Abbie Hoffman
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
– 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.
– Abbie Hoffman
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
– Abbie Hoffman
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
– 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.
– Abbie Hoffman
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
– 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.
– Abbie Hoffman
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
– Abbie Hoffman
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
– Abbie Hoffman