Timothy Leary Quotes

My parents were hippies.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

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

I'm a child of the Sixties.

The hippy movement was a failure.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

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.

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

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

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

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.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.

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.

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

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

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.