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
Pillars, Immoral, Steal, Institutions
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
- Abbie Hoffman
Wish, Reach, Never, Impose
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
- Abbie Hoffman
Sacred, Sacred Cows, Make, Cows
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
- Abbie Hoffman
Freedom, Measure, You, Assimilated
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- Abbie Hoffman
Only, Richard, Nixon, None
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.
- Abbie Hoffman
My Life, Having, Fugitive, Chose
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
Process, Decade, Ideology, Fixed
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.
- Abbie Hoffman
Death, Learn, Guard, Sterile
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
- Abbie Hoffman
Men, Only, Free Men, Decorum
There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.
- Abbie Hoffman
Selfish, Never, Will, Being Selfish
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.
- Abbie Hoffman
Warrior, I Wish, Town, Nomad
I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.
- Abbie Hoffman
Will, Survive, Going, To Survive
The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.
- Abbie Hoffman
Against, Willing, Tremendous, Grain
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
- Abbie Hoffman
Modern, Revolutionary, Group
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
- Abbie Hoffman
More, Cannibalism, Forced, Compulsory
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
- Abbie Hoffman
Society, More, Importantly, Organize
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
- Abbie Hoffman
Important, Transmission, Structure
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
- Abbie Hoffman
Theatre, Free Speech, Means, Shout
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman
Medical, Abuse, Use, Illegal
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
- Abbie Hoffman
Justice, Law, Rule, Contemporary
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman
Duty, Away, Get, Revolutionary
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
- Abbie Hoffman
Cute, Only, Referred, Revolutionary
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
- Abbie Hoffman
Important, Image, Once, Details
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
- Abbie Hoffman
Rock And Roll, Sex, Will, Gone
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
- Abbie Hoffman
Own, Only, Your, Support
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