Society quotes
152 society quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Edges of the Lord
“- Romek: Are we blessed? Or are we just the edges?
- Priest: We are all scraps, Romek, and we are all blessed the same.
- Romek: But not all the people right?” “But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.”
“There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.”
“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”
- From the movie: Evita
“The greatest social climber since Cinderella!”
- From the movie: Watchmen
“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”
“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”
- From the movie: An Ideal Husband
“- Lady Gertrude Chiltern: It is Robert himself who wishes to retire from public life.
- Lord Arthur Goring: Rather than risk losing your love, he would do anything.” - From the movie: Mona Lisa Smile
“While our mothers were called to the workforce for lady liberty it is our duty, obligation to reclaim our place in the home bearing the children that will carry our traditions into the future.”
- From the movie: Coma
“If society won't decide, we'll decide. We'll make the hard decisions.”
- From the TV Series: The Great Jang-Geum
“This woman isn't meant for this era. When will women have their place?”
- From the movie: Stagecoach
- From the animation: The Simpsons
- From the movie: Shaun of the Dead
- Shaun: As Bertrand Russell once said, "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation”. I think we can all appreciate the relevance of that now.
- Liz: Was that on a beer mate?
- Shaun: Yeah, it was Guinness Extra Cold.
- Liz: I won't say anything.
- Shaun: Thanks. - From the movie: George of the Jungle
“You and Ursula together would be unbefitting to her social stature, you see? Let me put it in the way you might understand. Where you come from, zebras marry zebras and leopards marry leopards. Stripes for stripes. Spots for spots. Ursula is a stripe and you are a spot. One which I intend to have removed as soon as possible.”
- From the movie: Talk Radio
“The worst news of the night is that three out of four people in this country say they rather watch TV than have sex with their spouse. The second worst news is that some kids needed money for crack last night so you know what they did? They stuck a knife in the throat of an eighty year old grandmother down on Euclid Avenue. Right here in Dallas....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Trainspotting
“One bottle of Valium, which I've already procured from my mother, who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict.”
- From the movie: Zero Effect
“- Steve Arlo: Why are we talking on the phone?
- Daryl Zero: I told you. We can't be too careful. Two guys in an airport... talking? It's a little fishy.” - From the movie: Pleasantville
- From the movie: Watchmen
“God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on, I knew God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
- From the movie: From the Hip
Through the vicissitudes of wholly gratuitous genetic accidents, I was visited with extremely high intelligence. I was further blessed - or burdened, as it were - with certain physical traits that would suggest "good breeding". Now, in this proletarian stew which we laughingly call society, these attributes are not always advantageous.
- From the movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
“Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone... until the day we die.”
- From the movie: X: First Class
- From the animation: The Incredibles
“The world just wants us to fit in, and to fit in, we gotta be like everyone else.”
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