Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Activism
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Theater
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Secrets of Success
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Revolution, Activism
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: The Present, Present
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Revolution, Revolutions, Revolutionaries
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: War
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Revolution
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.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Activism
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.
—Abbie Hoffman
Topics: Activism, Revolution
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Howard Zinn American Historian, Activist
- Murray Bookchin American Political Thinker
- Emma Goldman American Anarchist
- Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
- Guy Debord French Philosopher
- Albert Ellis American Psychologist
- Arthur Koestler British Writer, Journalist
- Jeannette Rankin American Politician
- Larry King American TV Personality
- Angela Davis American Political Activist
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