Quotes from Abbie Hoffman

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.

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

Steal This Book

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

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.

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

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.

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

Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

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.

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!

Lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

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

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