86 Quotes by 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 you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

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.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

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.

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

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

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

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

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