Hippie Era Quotes

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

“We’re all familiar with the Hippie dress code. Long hair, beards, psychedelic colours, sandals, lots of beads, and the women could often be seen wearing long, flowery granny dresses. So much so in fact that it became a uniform. Hippies rebelled so much against inflexible dress codes that eventually they created their own rigid styles.

Hippies mutinied so much against conformity that over the course of time they were forced to play the game and comply with what everyone else was wearing. The counter-culture became a counter-counter-culture.

Everyone was the same”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“The original Hippies were cool because it was who they were. But the ‘movement’ grew in numbers because it became the 'in thing’ to do. And sad as it is, most of them were plastic Hippies. The original Beatniks did what they did not because they were ‘hip’ but because it was who they were as a person. These were Carefree Scamps, but the plastic Hippies weren’t carefree at all

And besides that, they smelled like an Oxfam shop”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“I traveled ten thousand miles only to find the same red dirt...”
― Pat Conrad