Hippie/history/early Hippies 1960-1966

Famous quotes containing the words hippie, history, early and/or hippies:

    “It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    “These anyway might think it was important
    That human history should not be shortened.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Old hippies don’t die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.”
    —Joseph Gallivan (b. 1964)