Lester Bangs Quotes

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Having smoked a marijuana joint in 1968 is no big deal.

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

The legalization of marriages of ex-slaves stunk in the Nostrils of the people of Virginia…they believed that the nigger was better off with as many wives as he chose.

Since the third century Christianity has always served simultaneously those who supported the social order and those who wished to overthrow it... .

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

When I was younger, we'd stay at stately homes, and at the end of dinner, women would have to leave the table. I used to sit there. I wouldn't leave. I felt England should come out of the Victorian era.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.