“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingLooksRealEnoughShowsFunEasyMillionsComedyDrugHollywoodDollarsSurpriseDirtyShockPunkShockingHippieMillion Dollars Author:John Waters
“I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.” ThinkingWantNeedsLooksDoneTodayCultureMistakeStepsCivilizationDrugEnormousDamageWeedHippie Author:Werner Herzog
“His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.” WayHumansLooksLongStillsHelpingPoliticalConsciousnessAttitudeStruggleHairDrugClothesInfiniteRegionsActivistChemicalsExploringCostumesHippiePsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessWithering Author:Tom Wolfe
“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them” SpiritDependsDrugAddictionHippieIlluminationDegradationPsychedelic Drugs Author:George Andrews
“[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” PeopleKnowsTwoWarHomeLyingNightCoursesHouseLeftBlackCommunityWhiteLeaderEnemyBreakDrugNewsMeetingsCampaignsEveningIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleAntiwarMarijuanaAssociatesHippieHeroinVilify Author:John Ehrlichman
“I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.” ParentSidesFieldsListeningGrewDrugGrew UpIntellectualGratefulActiveSan FranciscoHippie Author:Winona Ryder
“When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.” PeopleWarReasonLyingBlackAttentionDrugPay AttentionBlack PeopleMarijuanaMurdererHippieWar On Drugs Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.” PeopleIfsTodayTurnsGamesEnergyProcessAdviceDrugNervousTunesOrgansTurn-onHippieNervous SystemNowhere To GoFeudalismDropping Out Author:Timothy Leary
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” NationsHealingDrugDestructionDrinkingAlcoholPotWeedMarijuanaAlcoholismHippieCocaineHerbsDrunkennessDrugs And AlcoholDrinking AlcoholCannabisReggaeFunny AlcoholAlcohol DrinkingSmokersDrinking FunnyHempAlcohol AddictionAlcohol And LifeMedical MarijuanaJamaicansSmoking WeedReggae MusicFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedStonersFunny DrugHippiJamaican MusicSex DrugsSmokin WeedGreat WeedMarijuana LegalizationCigarettes And AlcoholMedicinal HerbsSmoking Dope Author:Bob Marley
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.” BelieveLongOrderI BelieveMusicDoorsDrugI Believe InSensesHippie Author:Jim Morrison