Society quotes

“Back in the '60s, when we said we wanted to change society, maybe we should've been more specific.”
Chris Lloyd - Dennis Van Welker

“- Joan: So, worried much about western civilization?
- Danny: Not really. Not tonight.
- Joan: It's collapsing, or hadn't you notice?
- Danny: I live in a pretty good neighborhood.”
Elizabeth Perkins - Joan
Rob Lowe - Danny

“- Airplane Woman: Aren't you an actor?
- Albert T. Fitzgerald: Aren't we all, dear.”
Angela Paton - Airplane Woman
Kevin Spacey - Albert T. Fitzgerald

“Our society faces momentous decisions. Decisions about the right to die. About abortion. About terminal illness, prolonged coma, transplantation. Decisions about life and death. But society isn't deciding. Congress isn't deciding. The courts aren't deciding. Religion isn't deciding. Why? Because society is leaving it up to us, the experts. The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rip Torn - Dr. George

“Let's be real about this. Bala and I... Bala is a princess, and I'm a soil relocation engineer.”
Woody Allen - Z

“Fellow beings, we are here to celebrate a wedding. Not one imposed by an uptight consumer society, which kills whales, builds nuclear reactors, but a real marriage.”
Tom Smothers - Spike

“The world needs a wake up call, gentlemen. We're gonna phone it in.”
Peter Jason - Gilbert

“- Sam: Are you labour or management?
- Vincent: If I were management, I would not offer you a cigarette!”

Robert De Niro - Sam
Jean Reno - Vincent

“Honestly, darling, I'm so embarrassed. I mean to serve salmon with botulism at a dinner party is social death.”
Eric Idle - Angela

“- Ana Pascal: It's my weekly evil-conspiracy and needlepoint group. You wanna come?
- Harold Crick: I left my thimbles and socialist reading material at home.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Ana Pascal
Will Ferrell - Harold Crick

“- Leigh Ann Watson: There are certain similarities between society today and seventeenth century Salem. I guess that would be the irony of it all.
- Mrs. Tingle: Irony is the opposite of what is or might be expected. For example, if Ms. Watson was expecting an A on her history project, she might find the actual result to be rather ironic.”
Katie Holmes - Leigh Ann Watson
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle

“- Debi Newberry: How come you never learned that it was wrong? That there are certain things you do not do, you do not do in a civilized society?
- Martin Q. Blank: Which civilizations are we talking about?
- Debi Newberry: Oh, shut up!
- Martin Q. Blank: I mean, history...
- Debi Newberry: Shut up!”

Minnie Driver - Debi Newberry
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“You think you've beaten the political system because you're hiding out at the bottom of it.”
Kurtwood Smith - Carson

“They want a reason. Something to tie up with a little bow and bury in the backyard. Bury it down so deep it's like it never happened. They want me to say how I'm so sorry, and it was my mom's fault. Or maybe it was my dad's fault. Or it happened because of TV or movies or some junk like that. Or maybe I blame some girl.”

Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald

“There is a good reason why these rules were created, and they are the only reason we have survived this long!”
Bill Nighy - Viktor

“You'd like it here, you know. We've got everything. Power cuts, strikes, unemployment, race riots, and a terrific crime rate.”

Sir Sean Connery - Paul Bradley

“How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads?”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“- Stuart Stratland Jr.: Does he have to kill himself? Couldn't he just leave town at the end?
- Marvin Landisman: The whole point of the film is that he's destroyed by society. No, he can't just leave town.”

Jace Alexander - Stuart Stratland Jr.
Robert Wuhl - Marvin Landisman

“We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others.”
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy

“- Rand: Don't worry, they'll dedicate a ward in the psych department to you, you sick fuck.
- Tim: This isn't going to work! You can't shoot me, you morons! It has to look like a suicide!”

Randall Batinkoff - Rand
Matthew Lillard - Tim

- Donkey: What's your problem, Shrek, what you got against the whole world anyway?
- Shrek: Look, I'm not the one with the problem, okay? It's the world that seems to have a problem with me! People take one look at me and go "Aargh! Help! Run! A big stupid ugly ogre!". They judge me before they even know me - that's why I'm better off alone...
Eddie Murphy - Donkey
Mike Myers - Shrek

“The only downer is everyones got the same idea, we all travel thousands of miles just to watch tv and check in to somewhere with all the comforts of home, and you gotta ask yourself, what is the point of that?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard

“- Jacques: Society's to blame.
- Roland T. Flakfizer: Too much violence in the movies.
- Rocco Melonchek: It's my environment.
- Jacques: We were carrying out orders!
- Roland T. Flakfizer: It's the Japanese. They're buying up everything.
- Rocco Melonchek: Did we leave anything out?”
Bob Nelson - Jacques
John Turturro - Roland T. Flakfizer
Mel Smith - Rocco Melonchek

“Those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.”
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy

“Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control.”
Lambert Wilson - Merovingian