177 Best Society Quotes

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Lord Henry

You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. – Basil Hallward to Dorian

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

I had no place in a world where everyone was so sure of themselves.

The prosecutor then turned to me and pointed at me with a finger of scorn, and I really couldn't understand why he was making such a fuss.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

I was listening to him and I could hear that I was being judged intelligent. But I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

I knew what the world expected of me and I'd always acquiesced, either out of indifference or to make people happy.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? – Beatty

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. – Faber

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full with people running about with lit matches.

I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

You're not important. You're not anything.

The whole culture's shot through. The skeleton needs melting and re-shaping.

The rules are the only thing we've got! – Piggy

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It has not been a popular move with the people who would like to keep track of him.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Narrator

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied.

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

I'm an invisible man. Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired.

True education must correspond to the onward pull of the social order.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. – Nelson Mandela

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

This town deserves a better class of criminal, and I’m gonna give it to them. – The Joker

Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. – The Joker

I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve. – The Joker

They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out like a leper. – The Joker

The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't. – Arthur Fleck

Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there? – Arthur Fleck

What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you fucking deserve! – Arthur Fleck

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – The Red Queen

It’s not about aptitude, it’s about the way you’re viewed. – Elphaba

Random thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap. – Joel

We're living in a society! – George Costanza

You know we're living in a society! – George Costanza

Art is like a mirror. It shows us who we are. – V

I will not hide my tastes or my desires. I will celebrate them, and let the sin be on the heads of those who would condemn me. – V

I am the king of the twentieth-century refuse, the dragon that feeds on the closed factories and the thrown-away families. – V

You ever get the feelin', I don't know, when you're in town and someone looks at you all suspicious like he knows? And then you go out on the pavement and everyone looks like they know? – Ennis Del Mar

It's not enough to give people what they need to survive. You have to give them what they need to live. – Jayce Talis

I have a city to run. A very divided city, I might add. – Cassandra Kiramman

People like us don't write our own rules. We're just good at pretending we do. – Lily van der Woodsen

Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean anyone wants to hear it. – Blair Waldorf

The way things are going, they're going to have to pipe it in. – Grammy Norma

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. – Rhett Butler