1960s Quote by Yoko Ono Download Open image “The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.” — Yoko Ono ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1960s Conventional
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
People are always asking me about the '60s, like I should be some sort of expert. It's like being in the middle of a… — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
“The 1960s was motivated by repudiation of the old way and the quest for a new way. “Liberation” now came to mean liberation from… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements. The rise… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for.… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! — Twiggy Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit. — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone… — Luis J. Rodríguez Copy Share Image
I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead… — Dharmendra Copy Share Image
Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image