Quotes about Hippies

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. Ronald Reagan

Old hippies don’t die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. Joseph Gallivan

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. David Lee Roth

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it ‘freedom’, but in the final analysis ‘freedom’ is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren’t really offering any alternatives other than colourful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it’s hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation. Robert Pirsig

Hippies are so phoney and fake. George Harrison

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. Ronald Steel

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. Alice Cooper

Hippies, hippies… they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee! Eric Cartman

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike – I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. Spiro T Agnew