Quotes tagged ‘Society’

“Your gym is a skid mark on the underpants of society.”

— Rawson Marshall Thurber, White Goodman, Ben Stiller, imdb.com

“We cannot be a better society until we see that better society. I cannot be in the world until I see that I am in the world.”

— Yance Ford, imdb.com

“Twitter, Facebook, Instagram... these are weaponized. You have people in lab coats, literally best minds in our generation literally figuring out how to get you to be addicted to the news. And if you fall for it... if you get addicted.. your brain will get destroyed. And I think this is the modern s…”

— Naval Ravikant, youtube.com

“There was no such thing as society. Even if there was, I most certainly had nothing to do with it.”

— John Hodge, Mark "Rent Boy" Renton, Ewan McGregor, imdb.com

“You can believe whatever you want. It's what everyone else does.”

— Samuel Baum, Cal Lightman, Tim Roth, imdb.com

“They all have their little nicknames; however, I prefer to use the names their parents gave them, the names society will recognize them by.”

— Louis Sachar, Dr. Pendanski, Tim Blake Nelson, imdb.com

“My mother made me understand that every human society is a pyramid and that some lives will always matter more than others. It is better to accept this than to pretend it isn't true.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Balem Abrasax, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

“In 1951, Yale psychologist Solomon Asch famously demonstrated the power of conformity when his research participants knowingly answered questions incorrectly just to comply with the group. While engaging in silly behavior and posting the antics online doesn’t always call into question one’s deeply h…”

— Matt Klein, onezero.medium.com

“My parents were born into the good life. Old money, blue blooded, society sweethearts.”

— Leslie Caveny, Penelope Wilhern, Christina Ricci, imdb.com

“The lesson of the last decade is that our private tech choices can alter economies and societies. They matter. And they matter most in the mindless rush, when everyone seems to be jumping on board the latest new thing, because it’s in these heady moments that we lose sight of the precise risks of tu…”

— Farhad Manjoo, nytimes.com

“When we lift up the women of our country, we lift up the children of our country. We lift up the families of our country. And the whole of society benefits.”

— Kamala Harris, cnn.com

“We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community. And what we do every day is bring people together.”

— Howard Schultz, hbr.org

“I think becoming a nihilist is something that happens when you have been disappointed so much that you realize that everything is temporary; happiness is fleeting. That’s why I feel there has to be a way for someone to find value in themselves, where they say: ‘I do deserve to be here. Maybe society…”

— Chidera Eggerue, theguardian.com

“Today’s society does not pray, that is why it is falling apart.”

— Padre Pio, ncregister.com

“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”

— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com

“For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com

“Lucinda: Your major problem is you don’t listen and you completely submerge your feelings. Black men especially must learn to get in touch with their feelings, which the racist society has forced them to bury. They must listen so they can hear that inner homeboy and clock him. Linc: Inner homeboy?”

— Charles Randolph-Wright, Russell A. `Linc' Lincoln, Steven Williams, imdb.com

“Art is the lifeblood of society.”

— Jenna Richman, Dana Ledoux Miller, Tom Kirkman, Kiefer Sutherland, imdb.com

“[Erik addresses the other mutants on the beach] Erik Lehnsherr: This society won't accept us. We form our own. The humans have played their hand. Now we get ready to play ours. Who's with me? [looks to Mystique] No more hiding. Charles Xavier: [she kneels by Charles] You should go with him. It's wha…”

— Zack Stentz, Matthew Vaughn, Ashley Edward Miller, Jane Goldman, Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Michael Fassbender, imdb.com

“You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin’ fingers and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ So what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie.”

— Oliver Stone, Tony Montana, Al Pacino, imdb.com