Beginning Quote by Mark Fisher

“Simply put, relating to the world by following the world can be a recipe for disappointment and disillusionment. Countercultures that point out the problem…

— Gabe Lyons

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a…

— Al Seckel

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so…

— Douglas Coupland

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos…

— Jerry Garcia

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really…

— Derek Ridgers

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

— Slavoj Žižek

Counter-culture will always exist.

— Matty Healy

At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally…

— Susan Rosenberg

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time…

— Anton Chekhov

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

— Linus Torvalds

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

— Steve Earle