“- Katherine Valentine: How can a society so advanced, so scientific, be so stupid?
- Tom Natsworthy: Well, no more stupid than people today.”
Society quotes
120 society quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“- 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.” -
“Marriage is an institution. It's the bedrock of society.”
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“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.”
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“The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“- 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.” -
“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)
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“- 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.”
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“I service society by rocking, ok? I'm out there on the front lines liberating people with my music!”
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“The society must be better than the individual.”
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“The man failed to salute. There's hierarchies even in nature. There is no disdain in nature.”
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“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.”
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“The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society.”
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“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.”
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“Getting out of this sick society.”
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“Everyone in America thinks they're middle class. So they like to have someone to look down on.”
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