Hippie Quotes

“Wikipedia: Hippie”

“Wikicommons: Hippies”

“Sixtiespix An archive with photographs of hippie culture.”

“The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”

“Hippie Movies & TV Shows 1960s and early 1970s hippie and youth culture on film and TV.”

“You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.”

“UK Hippy. Long running British discussion forum covering all aspects of the British Hippy Counter-Culture from the 1960s to present day.”

“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. It was the heart of the hippie activity, and it was our culture, our generation, expressing itself at its most festive, so it was a real magnet for the young people … with the love-ins and so on.”

“Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion. A Canadian program by the CBC public network on the hippie rebellion including videos to watch”

“Men reached the moon in July 1969, and Woodstock began three weeks later. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that this was when the hippies took over the country, and when the true cultural war over Progress was lost. Today's aged hippies no longer understand that there is a difference between the election of a black president and the creation of cheap solar energy; in their minds, the movement towards greater civil rights parallels general progress everywhere. Because of these ideological conflations and commitments, the 1960s Progressive Left cannot ask whether things actually might be getting worse.”

“Summer of Love. A film part of PBS´s American Experience series. Includes the film available to watch online and other information on the San Francisco event known as the Summer of Love as well as other material related to the hippie subculture”

“I sought a different path than that of my parents. I totally rejected meditation and all the spiritual shit they built their lives on. Looking at the once idealistic hippie generation who had long since cut their hair, left the commune, and bought into the system, we saw that peace and love had failed to make any real changes in the world. In response, we felt love and despair and hopelessness, out of which came the punk rock movement. Seeking to rebel against our parents' pacifism and society's fascist system of oppression and capitalist-driven propaganda, we responded in our own way, different from those before us, creating a new revolution for a new generation. Painfully aware of corruption in the government and inconsistencies in the power dynamics in our homes, we rebelled against our families and society in one loud and fast roar of teen angst. Unwilling to accept the dictates of the system, we did whatever we could to rebel. We wanted freedom and were willing to fight for it.”