Abbie Hoffman

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ”

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

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ”

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ”

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish. ”

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

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. ”

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. ”

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. ”

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. ”