Sixties Quotes

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

~ John Lennon

If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.

~ Julian Barnes

Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.

~ R.s. Gompertz

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.

~ R.d. Laing

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

~ Tom Robbins

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

~ David Bailey

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

~ John Schlesinger

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

~ John Le Carré

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

~ John Lennon