Tom Hiddleston Quotes

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

We have to learn from the past.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.