Abbie Hoffman

“Action is the only reality, not only reality but morality, as well.”

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

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

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”

“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”