Tom Hiddleston Quotes

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible.

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.

Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.