"Steal This Book" Quotes
A countercultural guidebook for activists and revolutionaries, providing unconventional advice on how to challenge and subvert societal norms.
nonfiction | 352 pages | Published in 1971
Quotes
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
The basic principle of all guerrilla warfare is to hit the government where it is weakest: through the pocketbook.
Steal from the library. It's like robbing a bank except you feel even more guilty.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Free is when you don't pay for something. If you paid for something and you got it, it's not free. If you stole it and you got caught, it's not free.
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
The best way to fight the system is to create your own system.
The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
The media are the right arm of the government, the teachers are the left.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
