"[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality."

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Source : "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

Phil Ochs

#Couple Quotes #Reality Quotes #Years Quotes

“People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.”
“Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.”

Source : David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.
“Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.”

Source : Sandra Tsing Loh (1996). “Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles”, Riverhead Books
“When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.”
“The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.”
“Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.”
“Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1973). “Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method”, p.16, Univ of California Press
“I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.”

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