Society quotes

- Charlie Bucket: You can eat the grass?
- Willy Wonka: Of course you can! Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called "cannibalism", my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.
Freddie Highmore - Charlie Bucket
Johnny Depp - Willy Wonka

How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are... (continue)(continue reading)
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“Have you seen what it's like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore. Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don't. They think...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joaquin Phoenix - Arthur Fleck

“You know what is happening in our country? Nothing... simply an imperceptible replacement of one class for another. The middle class doesn't want to destroy us. It simply wants to take our place... and very gently.”
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“- Katherine Valentine: How can a society so advanced, so scientific, be so stupid?
- Tom Natsworthy: Well, no more stupid than people today.”
Leila George - Katherine Valentine
Robert Sheehan - Tom Natsworthy

“- Walter Shit: I wanted to express how cold, how pitiless this city really is.
- Joe: Nobody touched you for two days?
- Walter Shit: Spitting doesn't count.”

Jim Turner - Walter Shit
Jerry O'Connell - Joe

“Marriage is an institution. It's the bedrock of society.”
Marlon Brando - Carmine Sabatini

“Some people will have, some simply will not, but they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain. Some people will work, some never will, but they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.”

Tim Robbins - Bob Roberts

“We're on the same side, Tris. I'm Factionless because I don't fit into any one faction. And you're Divergent because you belong to too many. But we're both a threat to Jeanine. My people are ready for war, if that's what it takes.”
Naomi Watts - Evelyn

“The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.”
Donald Sutherland - X

“Better the blind man who pisses out the window than the joker who told him it was a urinal. Know who the joker is? It's everybody.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“This harmony we achieved is now under attack from a small but extremely dangerous group of individuals. We call them Divergents. They are, in essence, the worst of what humanity used to be. Rebellious, defiant, and uncontrollable.”

Kate Winslet - Jeanine

“To succeed in polite society, a young woman must be many things. Kind... well-read... and accomplished. But to survive in the world as we know it, you'll need... other qualities.”
Lily James - Elizabeth Bennet

“- Pere Mathieu - Cafe Owner: Madame, if you don't think about food, what do you think about?
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: The future of the common people.
- Pere Mathieu - Cafe Owner: That's also a question of food.”

Charles Judels - Pere Mathieu - Cafe Owner
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy

“- Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
- Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
- Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.”
Dick Rude - Duke
Emilio Estevez - Otto

“I service society by rocking, ok? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn

“The society must be better than the individual.”
George Clooney - Governor Mike Morris

“The first time I changed the world, I was hailed as a visionary. The second time I was asked politely to retire. Society tolerates only one change at a time.”
David Bowie - Nikola Tesla

“The man failed to salute. There's hierarchies even in nature. There is no disdain in nature.”

Paul Bettany - Dr. Stephen Maturin, Surgeon

“She'll grow up just like her mother. Marry, raise children and honor her family. Spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies, she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and Country for no biblical hell could ever be worse than a state of perpetual inconsequence.”

Moira Kelly - Beatrice Venier

“The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society.”
David Bowie - Nikola Tesla

“There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit. It goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit a privileged few, making mock of the vermin of the lower zoo. Turning beauty into filth and greed.”
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

“Getting out of this sick society.”
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless

“I have had some illusions shattered... I thought we weren't an aggressor nation. I thought there was a separation between church and state. Hell, I even thought that the people elected the president.”
Woody Harrelson - Carter Page III