When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
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Hippies are like jeans. They never die; they just fade.
Hippies are like jeans. They never die; they just fade.
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" read more
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.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the read more
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real read more
Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.
The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl read more
The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.
Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.
