# Quote — Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

> Dealing, although dangerous, is a tax-free way of surviving even though it borders on work.

- Author: [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md)
- Book: [Steal This Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman#Steal_This_Book_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/dealing-although-dangerous

## More from this book

> Those who say a demonstration should be concerned with education rather than theater don't understand either and will never organize a successful demonstration, or for that matter, a successful revolution.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/those-who-say.md)

> It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond the-one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, the modern plantation of agro-buinsess, or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgement to decide exactly who is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit. Capitalism is license to steal; the government simply regulates who steals an how much. I always wanted to put together an outlaw handbook that would help raise consciousness on these points while doing something about evening the score. There was also the challenge of testing the limits of free speech.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/its-universally-wrong.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/to-steal-from.md)