Quotes by Hippie The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle. Germaine Greer rip ambition hippie It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan. Glenn Frey drug college hippie I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s. Grace Cavalieri theater movement hippie 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 annoyed hippie thinking Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world. Graham Nash rules-and-regulations hippie doors I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look. Grant Hart ridiculous punk hippie 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 helping-others teaching hippie I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do. Guillermo del Toro hippie past thinking Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could. Gwyneth Paltrow eggs cooking hippie You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet. Helen Caldicott priorities planets hippie Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace. Herbert Marcuse hippie hair war It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. Hermann Hesse hate hippie life There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. Hubert H. Humphrey hippie rights years Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone. Hunter S. Thompson hippie insanity sex Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. Imelda Staunton hippie men war I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch. Ishmael Reed california hippie jobs Sooner or later, all games become serious. J. G. Ballard serious hippie games The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Jack Kerouac yawning hippie people Because the only people for me are the mad ones. Jack Kerouac yawning hippie people The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. James A. Garfield bases hippie law «1234567891011»