Jane Fonda Quotes

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

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.

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

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 remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

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, despite the drugs and sex.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

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.

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.

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.

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

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

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.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

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.

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.

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.