Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, theyll tell you its 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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