Quotes from Abbie Hoffman

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

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

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

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

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

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