Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

All I want to do is change the world.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

I'm trying to change the world.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

The period of radical reform is finished.

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.