“Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus … or off the bus."”

— Tom Wolfe , book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

On Kesey's coining of the phrase "on the bus", in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. VI : The Bus; as Paul Grushkin reports, in Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail (2011), p. 120, the statement became a famous evocation of an attitude:
The phrase became a metaphor for 1960s culture rethinking — if you were "on the bus" you were "with it."
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

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American author and journalist 1930–2018

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 6 : The Bus
Context: There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

“I don’t mind authority, but not authoritarian authority. After all, the bus driver is allowed to be the boss of the bus. But if he’s bad at driving, he’s not going to be a bus driver anymore.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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“It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”

James C. Collins book Good to Great

Source: Good to Great, 2001, p. 41.

“As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.”

José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager

https://www.goal.com/en/news/1689/comedy/2009/07/10/1374944/10-classic-jose-mourinho-quotes
Chelsea FC

“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis

“Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,
The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;
Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snob
If I whisper: "Bus driver, I don't want your job."”

A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician

"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).

“Through thick and thin, we're brothers to the bitter end. And if you're going to hell, buddy, I'm driving the bus.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

“Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride. “Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off."”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) 12th President of Turkey from 2014

King Abdullah II of Jordan
Quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg News, July 4, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-04/good-riddance-to-brotherhood-s-fake-democrats.html
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“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Congressmen should not take the bus.”

Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect

'Parlamentar não deve andar de ônibus', diz deputado Jair Bolsonaro http://odia.ig.com.br/noticia/rio-de-janeiro/2013-08-12/parlamentar-nao-deve-andar-de-onibus-diz-deputado-jair-bolsonaro.html. O Dia (12 August 2013).

“Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus … or off the bus."”

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