“Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”
As quoted in An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period (1990) by Charles DeBenedetti, p. 223
Context: [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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American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976Related quotes
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“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.”
As quoted in "Digerati are unlikely celebrants of a primitivist conflagration in the Nevada desert." by Edward Rothstein, in The New York Times (21 July 1997) https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/21/business/digerati-are-unlikely-celebrants-primitivist-conflagration-nevada-desert.html
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
Source: Curse of the Bane
Quote of Joan Mitchell from an interview with Irving Sandler (c. 1956); as cited in Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter, by Patricia Albers, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 3 may 2011, p. 244
1950 - 1975