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Abbie Hoffman
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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




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




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




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



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





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




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

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie Hoffman




Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman




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




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




Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman




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




The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman

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












"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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Abbie Hoffman - by Magda Hassan - 04-06-2013, 01:45 PM
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