1960s Counterculture Quotes

#1. Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

Yochai Benkler

#2. Apart from the before, the now has little meaning. The now is only a thin slice of who I am; isolated from the rich deposits of before, it cannot be understood.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

#4. A free people ought ... to be armed

George Washington

#5. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true ... This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

Stephen Prothero

#6. When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.

Alfred Molina

#7. Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Bill Nye

#8. Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

Susanna Clarke

#9. I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

Adam Shankman

#10. The choice is to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the intuitive wisdom from the heart.

Steven Redhead

#11. While life is being postponed, it rushes past.

Elaine Fantham

#12. The gift of the moment is a wonderful bliss.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'

Charles Duhigg

#15. All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Roald Dahl

#16. She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Yiyun Li

#17. you are not perfect but you are not your mistakes

Unknown

#18. I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

Mark Batterson