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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Dealing with the Hippie is generally straightforward. His childlike nature will usually respond positively to drugs, sex, and/or rock and roll, although in which order these are to be deployed must depend on conditions specific to the moment.
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult ... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.
Believers with nothing to believe in.
I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
Get off in your head like a neurologist
Old people. They don't know shit. This generation is moving faster.
Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.
Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his amber mane to conceal his missing ear. If
To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers.
Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
We're the propaganda monkeys.
The digital download junkies.
The skunk smoking geezers
With an inflatable Jesus.
We're the kitsch and cool.
Divide and rule.
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
The hippy movement was a failure.
Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
No, the hippies are not gone. Their movement has just become mainstream. If you support the environment, reject racism, sexism, war, are sexually open-minded, and are inherently suspicious of the government, then you're already a hippie - regardless of your fashion sense or how you wear your hair.
Futilitarianism.
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.
The most interesting hipsters are ones who stop being hipsters.
The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
I passed a group of theater students or hippies (sometimes it's hard to tell) sitting in a circle under an oak tree.
I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
People with imagination
Cynically enjoying a retirement life in pre-apocalyptic America.
Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.
I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
people, the kind of man who
Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.
Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.
1. People who are
People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.
Do-gooders
if theyd only do good.
[...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.
The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.
They belonged to the long and honorable human tradition that had spawned the Luddites, the flat-earthers, various bible-thumping faithies, the scientographers, and the back-earthies, not to mention all the other forms of the true believers that had parasitized human society over the millennia.
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
The kind of people who can't bend without breaking
A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.
The ones who nod in sympathy when their friends talked about street harassment, but whose lived experience involved more shouts of "lose some weight" than cat calls and leers. The
Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
Nincompoops. (Quincy,
...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...
Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages.
The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.
I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.
Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers".
Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing
The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
Locals. They'll eventually get out. They're annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it's closed. 'Cause some kid pooped in the water.
You used to be able to tell the difference between hipsters and homeless people. Now, it's between hipsters and retards. I mean, either that guy in the corner in orange safety pants holding a protest sign and wearing a top hat is mentally disabled or he is the coolest fucking guy you will ever know.
They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.
What the fuck are cavemen doing here?
People who dislike budging from their homes or walking beyond their own backyards
and they are always and everywhere in the majority
treat Herodotus' sort, fundamentally unconnected to anyone or anything, as freaks, fanatics, lunatics even.
Certain element - a few crazies - that don't have anything to do. They shot out two streetlights on Goodwinter Boulevard last night. When I was a kid we smashed pumpkins and strung trees with toilet paper on Halloween, but this new generation does it all year round.
Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.
People who go out and try to be a rebel at night,
Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.
Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
a bunch of depressed, overeducated shut-ins, but they seemed human to her.
Democrats - lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
Hollywood wives. The younger generation.
La di da di, we likes to party
We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.
The hippies saw it and lived it for a few shining moments, but the old stories were too strong. Instead of the hippies pulling us all into a new world, we dragged them back into ours. The
Stupid, fragile mortals.
Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!
Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.
Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.
I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.
A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.
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.
When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.
Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.
In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee.
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers.