Hippie Quotes - Page 12

• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

  Rob Sheffield

  Oatmeal, Fans, Ears

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Generations, Movement, Rebellion

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  People, Ironic, Warfare

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

  Erin Wasson

  Heart, People, Tough

  Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Self, Lunch, Crooks

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Garden, Golden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Athletic, Stuff

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment. I was lying around naked until I was two, having a good time. I think the California mentality is laid back and I definitely embody that.

  Urijah Faber

  Lying, Thinking, California

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

  Miley Cyrus

  Hair, Who I Am, Sneakers

  "Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 29, 2009.

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• I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

  Justin Timberlake

  Stars, Thinking, Sneakers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

  Bobby Seale

  Rights, Pigs, Names

  The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

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• Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

  Tom Lehrer

  Air, Water, Breathe

  "Pollution" (song) (1965)

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• Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Journey, Years

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• I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

  Greg Jackson

  Teaching, Helping Others, Journey

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• Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

  Charles de Lint

  Summer, Real, Rip

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• It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, Annoyed, Important

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

  China Mieville

  Beautiful, Names, People

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• When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Beer, Redneck

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Community, Free Spirit

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.

  Nick Littlemore

  Needs, Music Is

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• You have the establishment and then you have the hippies revolting against the establishment, and what you end up getting are like accountants with long hair. And that's kind of what happened with the youth movement in the '70s.

  Mark Russell

  Hair, Long, Movement

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always despised the hippies.

  John Lydon

  Despised

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