Abbie Hoffman Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

What if when they called a war, no one went?

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.

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

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

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

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

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

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

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

Fantasy is the only truth.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

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

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

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

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.