Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 11:12AM
Drew Wolfe

Abbie Hoffman

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

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. 

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. 

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. 

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

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. 

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. 

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. 

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. 

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. 

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. 

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

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

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

 

 

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