Jerry Rubin Quotes

They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. Well I remember the '60s, I was there and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

You can't recreate the '60s.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

People get so tired of the '60s.