Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

“All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”

“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid re...”

“I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague — finally staggered up to the top of this mo...”

“I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.”

“If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.”

“For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic Just Say No!' campaign...”

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

“I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.”

“In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a milli...”

“It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

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

“I can only related to Chicago as a personal anarchist, a revolutionary artist. If that sounds egotistical, tough shit. My concept of reality comes from what I see, touch, and feel, The rest, as far...”

“STRUCTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONTENT IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION. It is the same as saying the medium is the message.”

“You ask, What about the innocent bystanders? But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.”

“TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”

“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

“In Woodstock Nation there are no writers—only poet-warriors.”

“I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.”

“WOODSTOCK NATION is built on ELECTRICITY. It is our energy, music, politics, school, religion, play, battleground and our sensuality. I hesitate only in using the word Morality, for Morality means ...”