Dave Sim Quotes

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

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.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

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.

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

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.

Disruption of the New Left

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

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.

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.

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

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

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.

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.

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.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

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

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.

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

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