Hippie Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Liberty, Revolution

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Years, People

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Morality, States

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• I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.

  Werner Herzog

  Weed, Mistake, Thinking

  "Werner Herzog on His Unique Career, Clowns, and Getting Punk’d by Mel Brooks". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. August 3, 2014.

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• My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

  David Mamet

  Horse, Dad, Kids

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the war. And that's what we set out to do. What was not ended by the anti-war movement was ended by the Vietnamese. That's our shame.

  Bill Ayers

  Running, War, Long

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Taken, Rights

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• Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie…Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value…Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

  Ted Nugent

  Hair, Two, Water

  "Dee Snider Reminds Republicans Ted Nugent Allegedly Dodged Vietnam Draft In Gross Way" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reading, Writing, Intellectual

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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• I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

  Steve Earle

  Counter Culture, Grew Up, Counterculture

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• And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

  Dick Gregory

  Inspirational, Dance, War

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• Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

  Donna Karan

  Children, Flower, Stills

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• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Reflection, People

  John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, War, Military

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Get Up, Stand Up" (song) (1973).

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• The medium is the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Messages, Mediums

  Understanding Media title of ch. 1 (1964)

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• The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

  Joni Mitchell

  Pain, Men, Disrespect

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• I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.

  Dreama Walker

  Passionate, Honest, Boring

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

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• I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hair, Shoes, Feet

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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• Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

  Lisa McMann

  Mom, Tomorrow, Said

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• Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fear

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.82, Seven Stories Press

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• I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Care, Want, Mud

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• Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

  Neil Young

  Giving, Too Much, Anything Can Happen

  Neil Young (2012). “Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe”, p.82, Penguin

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