Timothy Leary Quotes

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

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

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.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

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.

Elvis Presley's music said, 'Free your body.' The Beatles said, 'Free your mind.'

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"

I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.