Timothy Leary: Quotes about people

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“My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.”

A Trip with Paul Kassner <!-- Politics of Ecstasy 1999 p. 215 -->
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Context: My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

Attributed to Leary by Terence McKenna in one of his talks ( "The World and Its Double" https://terencemckenna.wikispaces.com/The+World+And+Its+Double, 11 September 1993, Nature Friends Lodge, Sierra Madre, CA), though he also stated[citation needed] Leary denied ever having said it.
Misattributed

“Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.”

Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010), p. 202

“Drugs Are the Religion of the People — The Only Hope is Dope”

Section title in "The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)