Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

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

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

There’s no reason why an anarchist can’t be a saint.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

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

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

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

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Bad guys have more fun.

My parents were hippies.

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.