Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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

Human, Revolution, Spirit

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

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

Evil, Brother, Sister

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

Great, Rock, Sex

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

Freedom, Democracy, Measure

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

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

Men, Free, Speak

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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

Life, War, Respect

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
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Group, Television, Modern

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Sacred, Cows, Hamburger

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

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

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Wish, Language, Reach

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

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

Society, Around, Key

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

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

Revolution, Support

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

Medical, Legal, Political

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 30, 1936

Died: April 12, 1989

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