Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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.

This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

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

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.

In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

Our young people in increasing numbers are rejecting all forms or authority.

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

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

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.