ABBIE HOFFMAN

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

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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

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

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.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

I was probably the only revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

Personally, I always held my flower in a clinched fist.

Revolution For the Hell of It

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

All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Ripping off is an act of revolutionary love.

All our rip-offs together don’t equal one price-fixing scheme by General Electric.