Ken Kesey Quotes

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

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

I disliked everything about the '60s.

To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

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

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

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

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

Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

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

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

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.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.