10 Quotes About Sixty

The sixties were a time of change and adventure. It was a time when the world seemed to be on the verge of something great. While we may not have been able to predict how society would change, we could understand that the future was going to be different. And those who were able to adapt and thrive in this new era became the driving forces behind it all Read more

These sixties quotes will help make you feel like part of the revolution.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a...
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If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. John Lennon
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If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing. Julian Barnes
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Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor. R.S. Gompertz
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If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know. R.D. Laing
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Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness. Tom Robbins
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. David Bailey
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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. John Schlesinger
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. John Le Carre
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon