A biography for Abbie Hoffmanhasn’t been written yet.
“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”
“I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.”
“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
“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.”
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”
“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.”
“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
“We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.”
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”
“There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.”
“The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.”
“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”
“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
“I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.”