Abbie Hoffman Quotes

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

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

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

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

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

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

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

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.

It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.