1960s Quotes - Page 13

• I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

  Grace Slick

  Missing, Asking, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Political, Democracy

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

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• The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Numbers, Revolution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Art, New York, Fun

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

  Ronald Steel

  Children, Hippie, Burning

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• It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became explicit.

  Jean-Francois Chevrier

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines in the late 60s and I was addicted to them. I don't necessarily know the why. I'm sure at the time I could've told you six different reasons why I was doing it. But, in the end, all of that stuff, all chemicals will hurt you.

  Tommy James

  Hurt, Real, Simple

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Parent, Atmosphere, Normal

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• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  Noel Gallagher

  Mean, Oasis, Giving

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Billboard Interview, www.today.com. August 21, 2005.

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• Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Long

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• It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

  Richard Rogers

  Interesting, Cottages, Way

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• The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as a commercial proposition for Madison Avenue. Advertising played a major role in creating the ethos of that era - the idea that, "Here it is, and you can have it now." I know that many kids thought that the ethos of the 1960s was due to their own peculiar virtues, but, in fact, it had a lot to do with the realities of the marketplace and commerce.

  Doris Lessing

  Kids, Reality, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but they wouldn't let me write about her. They said she was a trivializer. I also wanted to do a paper on Simone de Beauvoir, and my philosophy teacher said, "Why would you write about the mistress? Write about the master." That was Sartre.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Girl, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women, students, young people, old people, farmers and workers. What are called "special interests" - meaning the whole population - they began to press to enter the public arena. And they said that puts too much pressure on the state and therefore we have to have more moderation in democracy and they should go back and be quiet and obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Discovery, Years, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

  Andrew Weil

  Psychologist, Harvard, Skinner

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

  J. G. Ballard

  Powerful, Imagination, Saws

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• By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Three, Hours, Economy

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• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Scotland, Environmental

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• It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.

  Marine Le Pen

  Mirrors, Progress, Needs

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• Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely even makes it into distribution. Tends to be too slow.

  David Foster Wallace

  Animal, Past, People

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• During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

  Jimmy Carter

  Oil, Environmental, Used

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• Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

  Alan Moore

  Cereal, Television, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, Teaching, School

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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