True Hippy Quotes

This is a little discussion my husband and my son had earlier today; it's adorable and thought provoking at the same time.
5 year old son to Dad:"When I grow up, I want to go to war," Dad to son:
"Why, war is stupid," 5 year old son to Dad: "So, I can learn stupid things
from a stupid war."
Hope you get a kick out of it like I did

 

"And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind, let us rejoice, and let us sing and dance and ring in the new." -Donovan

I'm kind of amazed nobody's said that one yet.

 

"where am I?"

 

oh wow. i collect quotes so ive got a whoooole lot. but i dont know where most of them came from because i tend to not really care who said it, just that someone somewhere did.

~You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. (English teacher)

~So long forgotten friends. No you don't know the difference between love and submission. (+44 song)

~You can crush the idealist, but you can never crush the ideal! (Across the Universe-movie)

~It's the nature of love to create. It's the nature of hate to destroy.

~Has the world lost its joy? Is that why we're in such a mess?

~What a great day it will be when schoold have all the money they need adn the army will have to hold a bake sale to buy bombs.

~There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

~Unfortunatly sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

~The army is some guy you dont know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.

~They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, not my obidience.

~Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

~Science is alright, but you can't dance to it.

~The only way to live life is to look for the best in everyday and make sure you have a part in creating some of it. (Strange Bedpersons)

~We must love one another or die.

~Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind. Possessing and caressing me. (Across the Universe-song)

~I'll give you everything you've got for a little peace of mind.

~Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command and your road is rapidly agin'. (TheTimes They Are A-Changin')

~I will not retreat an inch and i will be heard.

~It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

~Follow me and we will walk in beauty.

~I reject your reality and substitute my own.

~I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

 

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

 

The U.S. standard of living is a bourgeois baby blanket for executives who scream in their sleep. - The Digger Papers

Well, in San Francisco it began to some extent with, say, the media people; which meant a tacit conspiracy of everybody to take them all to bed, to turn them all on, to turn them into friends. I mean, what's the point of having enemies when you can have friends? -The Digger Papers

But the only thing that will allow each of us to create his or her Utopia is praxis -- and the pooling of our resources to free each of us to pursue our individual activities and strengthen the autonomous boundaries of our free cities of the now. -The Digger Papers

Cities keep getting bigger and bigger and faster. People, inside them, get more crazed. Lots of them just can't do it anymore. -The Digger Papers

City is so human. Is it possible that this becomes our Tragic Flaw? (Seeing City as Mindless evolution, irreversible, Man's way of changing, not biological?) -The Digger Papers

Today their children get high together. Work little, eat well, ball like crazy, and use all their energy to perfect their own beings, and to help the perfection of others. -The Digger Papers

 

Take a Giant Step outside your mind!

 

The Movement in it's struggle for life on the planet earth, will find itself branded traitor by the linear war machine. Extraordinary powers will be assumed by the President and correction centers will be filled by those elements of society deemed subversive. "If a dictatorship comes to America, it will wave the stars and stripes and sing the National Anthem." And its armband will carry the word "Emergency."
-L. C. Stevens-

 

May you build a ladder to the stars
and climb on every rung
and may you stay forever young.........

Prace

 

Sure is a great song.

When peace is outlawed only outlaws will have peace.

 

if it feels good, do it !

 

Here are just a few quotes that I can think off the top of my head at this moment.

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is. — Ken Kesey

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come. — Cat Stevens

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. — John Lennon

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

It's better to burn out than fade away. —Neil Young

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. —Bob Marley.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. —Jim Morrison

Mother, should I trust the government? — Pink Floyd

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. — Jerry Garcia

 

"free your mind and your ass is bound to follow"

-George Clinton/Parliment Funkadelic

 

"live the life YOU love" or..
"love the life you live"

 

-either light up or leave me alone

 

Love Now.

 

I'm an outsider by choice, but not truly. It's the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out. I'd rather be in, in a good system. That's where my discontent comes from: being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice is: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place. -George Carlin

 

I don't know where this came from originally. An editor of the Miami News wrote it on the last day of that more liberal of Miami's papers demise. He attributed it to some other editor - it may be in the public domain.

"If it's the right direction - swim upstream."

I really like that - an answer to the ppl who have admonished me all my life for not being part of the popular crowd.

 

Thats from a CSNY song "Woodstock" Great Song.
I believe it was written by a different woman.

 

It was written by Joni Mitchell