Quotes About Society

Chuck Palahniuk

Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling, and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Chuck Palahniuk

La gente usa quelli che chiama telefoni perché odia stare nello stesso luogo insieme, ma ha anche paura di stare sola.

if i can't be beautiful, i want to be invisible

DövüÅŸ kulübünün ilk kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r. DövüÅŸ kulübünün ikinci kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r.

Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, educados por la televisión para creer que un día seremos millonarios y estrellas de cine y estrellas de rock, pero no es así.

Etraf?ma bakt???mda bugüne kadar yaÅŸam?? en güçlü, en ak?ll? adamlar? benzin pompalarken ve garsonluk yaparken görüyorum.

Porque tener hijos es el opio del pueblo.

beautiful people should never date each other. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together.

No se nos podía ocurrir nada que no estuviera haciendo ya un millon de personas.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer.

We're all such products

Chuck Palahniuk

The space monkey continues, Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Men in general need to accept their diminished status in the world.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough, you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin.

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

Worse than alcoholism or heroin addiction, dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. It's as if you've shirked life—simply not made enough serious effort to live up to your full potential.

They don't ask, How do we stop bullies? Instead those assholes say, How can we get these stupid kids to stop painting bull's-eyes on their foreheads? They put the blame on the victims, not the victimizers.

Or maybe," Miriam seethes, "men swim in a septic pool of bad ideas about tough guys and big dicks, and they float there, soaking in it, gulping down mouthfuls of that shit, and it gets inside them, infects them, makes their blood go black and sour. Fathers take their sons and shove their heads down under the water, too, just to make sure they all get a taste. Maybe men are fucking broken. You ever think that?

Until we disentangle fundamental needs and rights from someone's ability to charge us for it, capitalism will continue to throw us over the cliff's edge. This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but a ka-ching. —Afzad Kerman in his TED Talk, "Chaos and Crisis: The Accidental Ingenuity of the Almost-Apocalypse

What's come before will come back around again. Republic was the way of the world before, and it'll be the way again. And for a time everyone will cheer them on, and everything will be cozy-dosie, but there will come a time when things go sour and someone decides they got a better way of doing things.

People believe any horseshit shoved in their ears long as you say 'terrorist.