Abbie Hoffman Quotes
"Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Drugs, Nixon, Worth)
"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Fire, Free speech, Right)
"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Content, Information)
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Men, Dignity, Repression)
"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Legal, Medical, Abuse)
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Revolution, Support)
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Duty, First)
"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Sex, Will)
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Democracy, Freedom, Measure)
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Cows)
"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
(Related: Revolution, Ideology, Spirit)
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Right)
"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: People, Language)
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: People, Cannibalism)
"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: American, Justice, Law)
"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
(Related: Death, War, Life, Corporate, Machines, Respect)
"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
(Related: Sister, Brother, Evil)
"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Cute)
"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
(Related: Society, People, Key, Want)