Society quotes

“We have been getting screwed by the system. The system that forces us guys to like girls. We're getting pushed into this. What if we just take the girls out of it? We can have our own system. We can just be guys! You can have sex, you can do it, you know, many guys at a time, but it's not gay.”
Michael C. Maronna - Jeff Davis

“- Danny Ocean: They tell me I paid my debt to society.
- Tess Ocean: [sarcastically] Funny, I never got a check.”

George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Julia Roberts - Tess Ocean

“To whom it may concern. I, being of sound mind but broken spirit have decided to take my own life. There is no one to blame but a society that has pushed its youth too hard and too fast without ever giving them a parachute if they fail.”

Matthew Lillard - Tim

“Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard

“- Bitsey Bloom: You know you are in the bible belt when there are more churches than Starbucks.
- Zack: When there are more prisons than Starbucks.”
Kate Winslet - Bitsey Bloom
Gabriel Mann - Zack Stemmons

“In a free society you are what you say you are. If you screwed up on life, sometimes you can get another shot.”
Loren Dean - Mumford

“A king fears tradition more than he does assassination. There is a chance for me to escape assassination but not tradition. It's one of the unfortunate things connected with being King.”
Louis Hayward - Philippe of Gascony

“If you are suggesting, Sir Edward, that my position in society owes anything to my wife, you are utterly mistaken. It owes everything to my wife.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Chiltern

“Kid, here in New York we have three distinct social classes. A. People who make a billion dollars a day and get laid in some tower every night. B. People who live in Times Square and eat Yankee Doodles on the sidewalk. And C. Guys like me. Guys who I like to call the glue in society.”

Bruno Kirby - Victor Ray

“- Stokely: In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane.
- Harvey Holroyd: Where'd you get that?
- Stokely: Star Trek.
- Harvey Holroyd: God, I miss that show.”
Anthony Battaglia - Stokely
Martin Mull - Harvey

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me, I am quite aware of that, and I have always detested you.”

Julianne Moore - Mrs. Laura Cheveley

“- Frank: Maybe they're always been with us... those things out there. Maybe they love it... seeing us hate each other, watching us kill each other off, feeding on our own cold fuckin' hearts...
- Nada: I got news for 'hem... There's gonna be hell to pay. 'Cause I ain't daddy's little boy no more.”
Keith David - Frank
Roddy Piper - Nada

“I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tiana Hux - Soap Opera Woman

- Candice Paluso: Aren't you guys gonna get really bored out here if society doesn't collapse?
- Donald: I wouldn't worry about that. Wes says society is heading for the big "flush". And we're going to be the ones who are clinging to the rim while everything else goes down.
Kristen Vigard - Candice Paluso
Robin Williams - Donald Quinelle

“This world may have blinded me, but the Lord has let me see.”
Raymond St. Jacques - Street Preacher

“- Larry Benson: Welcome to Earth, Irwin. You may not be familiar with our company, but this is pretty much the way things work down here in the real world.
- Irwin Wayfair: Well the real world sucks.”

Jay Mohr - Larry Benson
David Cross - Irwin Wayfair

“We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it, any rational society will either kill me or put me to some use.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“It's my kind of place. Dangerous, with pimps, whores without class, rip-off artists, and other hard-core turf shattered types entertaining fantasies too desparate to mention... just naked reality twenty-four hours a day. I've always had a love affair with the streets.”

Ben Gazzara - Charles Serking

“- Rena King: Nicki, do you think Max is a menace to society?
- Nicki Brand: He's certainly a menace to me.”
Lally Cadeau - Rena King
Debbie Harry - Nicki Brand

“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices.”
John Lawrence - Bearded Man

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Rupert Everett - Lord Arthur Goring

“- Angus Bethune: I'm hoping to prove that within every normal system, there exists an aberration. Something different.
- Mr. Kessler: The Chaos theory.
- Angus Bethune: The Bethune Theory.
- Mr. Kessler: Your hypothesis?
- Angus Bethune: When a small, abnormal element is forced into a larger normal system, the element will either be rejected or...” (continue)(continue reading)

Charlie Talbert - Angus Bethune
Wesley Mann - Mr. Kessler

“- Sir Percy Blakeney: If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
- Lord Timothy Hastings: That's the easy part. The hard part's not being able to boast about our exploits to the ladies.”
Anthony Andrews - Sir Percy Blakeney
Mark Drewry - Lord Timothy Hastings

“You live in a free society; you have no choice.”
Ken Russell - Walter

“You can learn a lot from ants. These Brazilian fire ants can teach you a lot about successful societal structure. You see there's one queen in there. The rest are dedicated worker ants. Everybody pulls their weight. Nobody complains. There's harmony and growth.”

David Selby - Dean Buckley