Society quotes

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

“ If society was throwing us away, and sending us, the workhorse, out to the pasture, we workhorses had to gather together and take care of each other. And that’s what this is all about. The way I see it is that the Titanic is sinking, and economic times are changing. And so my goal is to get the lifeboats out and get as many people into the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bob Wells - Bob

“There is little chance for a person to exercise the imagination today in this complex, programmed society we have.”
Peter Cushing

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

- 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

“I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

- Connie Baker: "Now everyone can be Van Gogh. It's so easy. Just follow the simple instructions and in minutes, you're on your way to being an artist".
- Katherine Ann Watson: Ironic, isn't it? Look at what we have done to the man who refused to conform his ideals to popular taste. Who refused to compromise his integrity. We have put him in a... (continue)(continue reading)

Ginnifer Goodwin - Connie Baker
Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor / Making billions and billions and billions of bucks / well, my friend, if you weren't already rich at the start, well, that situation just sucks / 'cause the riches motherfuckers in five of us is getting ninety-fucking-eight percent of it /...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Joe Mantegna - David Rossi

“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”

Mandy Patinkin - Jason Gideon

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues—the most dominating virtues of human society—are created, strengthened, and maintained.”

Paget Brewster - Emily Prentiss

“A lot of people would pay top dollar to decimate the population. I'll take the highest bidder—Al-Qaeda, North Korea, Republicans, shriners, balding men that work out, people on the Internet that are only turned on by cartoons of Japanese teenagers.”
Gary Anthony Williams - Poncho

“I hate the idea that someone out there hates me. I even hate thinking that Al Qaeda hates me. I think if they got to know me, they wouldn’t hate me.”
Jenna Fischer - Pam Beesly

“Laws aren’t perfect, because humans who created laws aren’t perfect. It’s impossible to be perfect. However, the laws are evidence of the human’s struggle to be righteous.”
Naoya Uchida - Soichiro Yagami

“Under normal circumstances, humans should have continued to evolve as the greatest creatures upon this earth, but we were actually regressing. A rotten world. Politics, law, education… Was there anybody around who could correct this world?”
Mamoru Miyano - Light Yagami

Listen to me, I've been out of circulation for so long I've completely forgotten social niceties. You asked me how I am I'm not really supposed to say how I am, I'm supposed to say "I'm fine thanks, how are you?
Heather Graham - Annie Blackburn

I worked for corporate America, you know, for twenty years. And my friend, Bill, worked for the same company, and he had liver failure. A week before he was due to retire, HR called him in hospice, and said, “Now, let’s talk about your retirement.” And he died ten days later, having never been able to take that sailboat that he bought out of his... (continue)(continue reading)
Merle Redwing - Merle

“I can’t imagine what you’re going through, the loss of your husband, and the loss of your whole town, and friends, and village, and that kind of loss is never easy. And I wish I had an easy answer for you. But I think you’ve come to the right place to find an answer. I think that, I think connecting to nature, and to a real true community, and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bob Wells - Bob

“Not everyone has fallen victim to the royal fever sweeping through London.”
Julie Andrews - Lady Whistledown

“What else is a criminal except somebody who can't function in society?”
Anna Torv - Dr. Wendy Carr

“Sometimes society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.”
Daniel Brühl - Laszlo Kreizler

“You know the difference between capitalism and socialism? In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s the other way around.”
Douglas Smith - Marcus Isaacson

“What we need to do is to put an end to all this barbarity. Put an end to all this violence - find a solution for it. By inventing a new society. A society where the relationships among men is governed by respect and the absence of profit. Thus a society without greed.”
Riz Ahmed - Hermann Kermit Warm

“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
Leslie Caron