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For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Progress3 quotes
Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand. — Bob Dylan · 1964Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome, some day. — Pete Seeger · 1962The human condition2 quotes
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen · 1984Alienation1 quote
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965America1 quote
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie · 1945Cold War1 quote
We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959Equality1 quote
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie · 1945Fascism1 quote
Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs. — Tom Lehrer · 1965Fighting fascism1 quote
Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs. — Tom Lehrer · 1965Growing up1 quote
A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963Hard times1 quote
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children…
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall. — Bob Dylan · 1963Healing1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Human frailty1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Injustice1 quote
How many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan · 1962Justice1 quote
For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Lack of direction1 quote
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone? — Bob Dylan · 1965Loss of innocence1 quote
A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963Nuclear holocaust1 quote
We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959Old vs. young1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Passage of time1 quote
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot · 1976Political progress1 quote
Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963Resistance to change1 quote
Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963Social progress1 quote
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome, some day. — Pete Seeger · 1962The 60s1 quote
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1965Underdogs1 quote
For the loser now will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan · 1964Vision1 quote
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children…
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall. — Bob Dylan · 1963