Quotes about 1960

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If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Pe — John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. — John Lennon
I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become — Truman Capote
The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could ju — John Updike, Rabbit, Run
But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential prom — Morley Safer
In researching this book, I quickly discovered a surprising thing about the 1960s: the decade was not nearly as radical — Jonathan Leaf, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
Cops and Robbers in 1965 England was still a kind of Ealing comedy: crimes rarely involved firearms. The denizens of F-w — Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Take just one well-known event: The Beatles' 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. This has been depicted with astoni — Jonathan Leaf, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search f — William Stringfellow, Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition
This, too, is the Biblical description of work. In sin men lose their dominion over the creation which God gave them, an — William Stringfellow, Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition
Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count — William Stringfellow
Don't be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the o — William Stringfellow
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to w — John Updike, Rabbit, Run
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ran — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960’s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, — Rebecca McNutt, Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City
You cannot step a foot into the literature about the 1960s without being told how 'creative', 'idealistic', and 'loving' — Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
We -- the industrialized, technologized world -- have never been richer. And yet to an extraordinary extent we in the We — Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click o — John Updike, Rabbit, Run
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
...And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, — Nikolas Schreck