Abbie Hoffman Quotes

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Lenin strove constantly to get the people to understand that the leaders could not do everything for them, that they them-selves, with their own hands, would have to build a new life and defend their own state; in this he proved himself to be a real people's leader, able to show the people the way forward and induce them to take the first step forward fully conscious of their aim, instead of following blindly behind the leaders.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We are out to rebuild the world.

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.