Hippie famous quotes
04-17-2025
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
-- Aaron Koblin -
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 -
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
-- Adam Schiff -
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
-- Alan Watts -
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
-- Alanis Morissette -
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Never go with a hippie to a second location.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
-- Alice Cooper -
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.
-- Amanda Peet -
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
-- Amy Irving -
The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.
-- Ana Ortiz -
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
-- Antonin Scalia -
The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!
-- Arlo Guthrie -
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
-- Ben Elton -
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
-- Bernadette Devlin -
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.
-- Bianca Jagger -
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
-- Bjork -
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
-- Bob Dylan -
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
-- Bob Marley -
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 -
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
-- Carl Jung -
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
-- Carl Jung -
I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.
-- Cat Stevens -
If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.
-- Cat Stevens -
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
-- Charles Inglis -
Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!
-- Charles Kelley -
I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.
-- Chiara Barzini -
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 -
Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.
-- Christopher Titus -
I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.
-- Corey Feldman -
If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.
-- Damon Albarn -
It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.
-- Danny Boyle -
I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.
-- David First -
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
-- David Lee Roth -
I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.
-- Demetri Martin -
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 -
Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?
-- Don McLean -
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
-- Don McLean -
Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
-- Donna Karan -
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 -
Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.
-- Eddie Griffin -
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
-- Edvard Munch -
The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.
-- Erin Wasson -
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
-- Ethan Suplee -
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper.. a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next.. to being rich..
-- Felix Dennis -
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
-- Francois Fenelon -
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 -
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
-- George Harrison -
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
-- George Harrison -
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 -
It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
-- Glenn Frey -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.
-- Helen Caldicott -
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 -
Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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 -
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 -
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
-- James A. Garfield -
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
-- Janis Joplin -
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
-- Janis Joplin -
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
-- Jello Biafra -
Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.
-- Jenna Elfman -
Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies ***** and raising hell.
-- Jerry Jeff Walker -
I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.
-- Jesse Metcalfe -
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.
-- Jessica Biel -
I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.
-- Jim David -
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
-- Jim Morrison -
Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
-- Jim Morrison -
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
-- Jim Morrison -
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
-- Jimi Hendrix -
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
-- Jimi Hendrix -
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
-- Jimmy Buffett -
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
-- Joe Gallivan -
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
-- Joe Strummer -
We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
-- Joel Kinnaman -
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
-- John Kasich -
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 -
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
-- John Lennon
