Abbie Hoffman

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

— Abbie Hoffman

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

— Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

— Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be,…

— Abbie Hoffman

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a…

— Abbie Hoffman

I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala…

— Abbie Hoffman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image…

— Abbie Hoffman

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I…

— Abbie Hoffman

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live…

— Abbie Hoffman

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all.…

— Abbie Hoffman

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do…

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

— Abbie Hoffman

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig…

— Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death…

— Abbie Hoffman

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

— Abbie Hoffman

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on…

— Abbie Hoffman

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a…

— Abbie Hoffman

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing…

— Abbie Hoffman

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as…

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded…

— Abbie Hoffman

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

— Abbie Hoffman