Paul McCartney Quotes

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.