Quotes on Hippi

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

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

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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