Hippie Quotes, Phrases, and Sayings
Our beloved hippies are the most easily recognizable and frequently emulated characters in American culture. 40 odd years into the counterculture revolution, people are still using hippie sayings as a means to express their feelings and states of being.
Below is a collection of the greatest phrases ever constructed by hippies. Contact us if we have forgotten any of your favorite hippie quotes. Also be sure to check out the hippie gifts page for gift ideas for people you know.
Empowering Hippie Quotes
Love is a friendship set to music.
~Joseph Campbell
Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Meade
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.
~ John Lennon \\//
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
~ Abbie Hoffman
War is over, if you want it.
~ John Lennon \\//
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
~ Alan Watts
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~ Alan Watts
He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong.
~ Anonymous
You’re either on the bus or off the bus.
~ Ken Kesey
Be Here Now!
~ Ram Dass
Like a true Nature’s child, we were born, born to be wild.
~ Steppenwolf
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
~ Mark Twain
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
~ Jimi Hendrix
If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.
~ Jimi Hendrix
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
~ Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
~ Carl Jung
Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open.
~ Jordan Maxwell
Always trust those searching for The Truth, never those who have found it.
~ Jordan Maxwell
The President�s job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
~ Douglas Adams (Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Universe)
The so-called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from arising in their minds.
~ The Occult Technocracy of Power
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else – Bernadette Devlin
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you – Fmr US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
~ Terence McKenna
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
~ Joseph Campbell
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
~ Bob Marley
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
~ Bob Marley
Generic Hippie Quotes
Make love, not war.
~ Ancient Hippie Quote
Don’t let the man keep you down.
~ Ancient Hippie Quote
Live and let die.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Hell no, we won’t go.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Never trust the man.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Give peace a chance.
~ Ancient Hippie Quote
Power to the People.
~ Ancient Hippie Quote
Drop acid not bombs.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Live and let live.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Bring it home, daddy-o.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Sock it to me.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Outtasight!
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Right on.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Groovy (adjective)
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Go with the flow.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Far out, man.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Heavy (adjective)
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Watch the fro.
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
Jump the lines, man!
~ Anonymous Hippie Quote
F*ck the establishment.
~ Ancient Hippie Quote