Hippie Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Numbers

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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• I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

  Sherman Hemsley

  And Love, Peace And Love, Knows

  "Sherman Hemsley, 'Jeffersons' Star, Is Dead at 74" by Mel Watkins, www.nytimes.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

  Carl Jung

  Epidemics, Psychics, Mass

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fear, Dragons, Treasure

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• 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

  Hands, Upper Hand, Punk

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Thinking, Cynical

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• The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

  William S. Burroughs

  Love, Flower, Thinking

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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

  Dream, Believe, World

  Song: Peace Train, 1971

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts

  Stephen Gaskin

  Attitude, Kindness, Getting High

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• When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

  June Jordan

  Girl, Children, Flower

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• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Political, Liberty, Firsts

  "Revolution for the Hell of It". Book by Abbie Hoffman, 1968.

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• If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

  Scott McKenzie

  Flower, Hair, San Francisco

  "Song: "San Francisco" ("The Voice of Scott McKenzie")". 1967.

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• Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Brotherhood Of Man, People

  Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• Drugs are a bet with your mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Addiction, Drug, Mind

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• Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Originals

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• To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

  Bernadette Devlin

  Inspirational, Women, Positivity

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Cynical

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• There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

  Neil Young

  Band, Getting High, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: After The Gold Rush, 1970

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• Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Kissing, Sky

  Song: Purple Haze

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• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  Rachel Weisz

  Children, Real, Home

  "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.

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• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Good Morning, Sexy

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.189, New World Library

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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