Society quotes
136 society quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Detachment
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)
- From the movie: Nomadland
“ 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)
“There is little chance for a person to exercise the imagination today in this complex, programmed society we have.”
- From the movie: The Ides of March
“The society must be better than the individual.”
- From the movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 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. - From the movie: Gattaca
“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.”
- From the movie: Mona Lisa Smile
- 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) - From the movie: Bulworth
“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)
- From the movie: Nomadland
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)
- From the movie: Nomadland
“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)
- From the TV Series: Bridgerton
“Not everyone has fallen victim to the royal fever sweeping through London.”
- From the TV Series: Mindhunter
“What else is a criminal except somebody who can't function in society?”
- From the TV Series: The Alienist
“Sometimes society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.”
- From the TV Series: The Alienist
“You know the difference between capitalism and socialism? In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s the other way around.”
- From the movie: The Sisters Brothers
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
- From the movie: Joker
“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)
- From the movie: The Leopard
“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.”
- From the movie: Mortal Engines
“- Katherine Valentine: How can a society so advanced, so scientific, be so stupid?
- Tom Natsworthy: Well, no more stupid than people today.” - From the movie: Joe's Apartment
“- 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.” - From the movie: The Freshman
“Marriage is an institution. It's the bedrock of society.”
- From the movie: Bob Roberts
- From the movie: Insurgent
“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.”
- From the movie: JFK
“The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.”
- From the movie: Coup De Torchon
“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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