Society quotes
152 society quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the TV Series: The Office
- From the animation: Death Note
“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.”
- From the animation: Death Note
“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?”
- From the TV Series: Twin Peaks
- 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: 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.”
- From the movie: Insurgent
“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.”
- From the movie: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- From the movie: Ninotchka
“- 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.” - From the movie: Bobby
“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)
- From the movie: Repo Man
“- 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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