Society quotes

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

“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

“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

“- Jeff Kohlver: I'm a decent guy. Ask anyone. Go ahead. Ask these models.
- Hayley Stark: Of course they will. You're not an idiot. You don't piss where you live. Those girls were your work, and I, on the other hand, was your play.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“Everyone in America thinks they're middle class. So they like to have someone to look down on.”
Seth Meyers - Chet Krogl

“One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Two-Face

“- Lord Caversham: I don't know how you stand society. A lot of damned nobodies talking about nothing.
- Lord Arthur Goring: I love talking about nothing, father. It's the only thing I know anything about.
- Lord Caversham: That is a paradox, sir. I hate paradoxes.”
John Wood - Lord Caversham
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“It's a stinking hypocritical world isn't it Brent where rapists become pillars of the community, with stinking hypocritical people in it who wouldn't miss their own befouled lives much so... so... so what better way than to take away the only innocence they have left... their precious virginal children.”
Jay Mohr - Leonard Marliston

“Everyone comes here, they have a complaint. They sit down. I do waiting for five hours and you're gonna ask me do I have a complaint?”
Kami Jones - Black Woman

“We are all that is left of humanity. The vast wall that encloses this city may protect us from our toxic surroundings, but it is up to us to confront any element that could poison us from within.”
Kate Winslet - Jeanine

“I want ya to look around, just look around, and tell me what you see. A society that's obsessed with feeling good and happy. But underneath that moronic veneer lurks a thirst for blood. Yes, my friend, an invidious potential for lawlessness and despair; existential and otherwise. The sooner you weasels open your eyes to the hideous truth, the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Barton Heyman - Sheriff Quentin Durango

“Frederic, these are the 1880s. You can't live your life by the outmoded conventions of a neo-imperialist society. Find your true center!”
Kristy McNichol - Mabel Stanley

“You don't know anything about society, Maria; you don't have the satisfaction of avoiding it.”

Michael Douglas - Nicholas Van Orton

“We live in a country where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him, not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me God!”
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“Less than six degrees of separation exist between you and several million strangers who you may or may not encounter in your lifetime. When we understand the structure of this communication net, we stand to grasp a good deal more about the fabric of society.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“People ain't hating nowadays like they used to. They gettin' soft. I got to admit that I like a man that hauls off and hates good and hard.”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“There was a time when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation. When we could be fully absorbed in the world as human beings. But more often, now, people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“Gloria, sweetheart, we live in a violent society. Weirdos all around. Get them before they get you.”
Marilyn Sokol - Stella

“The pressures are intense here. Nobody wants to be a hod carrier at Santa Mira. No. You're supposed to be beautiful and successful and popular and perfect. Well, Angela was none of these things, and her fear of failure eventually became too much for her to handle. It was this fear of public humiliation that led her to kill in the first place.”

Tom Dugan - Public Defender

“A society uninterested and unwilling to learn from the past is doomed. We must never forget our history.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“- Jan: Where are your mom and dad?
- Christopher McCandless: Living their lies somewhere.”
Catherine Keener - Jan
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless