Quotes by Ken Kesey

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
– Ken Kesey
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
– Ken Kesey
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
– Ken Kesey
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
– Ken Kesey
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
– Ken Kesey
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
– Ken Kesey
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
– Ken Kesey
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
– Ken Kesey
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
– Ken Kesey
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
– Ken Kesey