Topic
Society
Quotes
Us Versus Them, Always.
Society is a complex, interconnected network of individuals bound together by shared culture, institutions, and a sense of collective identity, shaping their behavior and interactions. It is fundamentally meaningful because it provides the framework for human survival, growth, and fulfillment, offering both the structure necessary for progress and the context for developing individual identity and purpose.
Featuring Wisdom From
# Society & Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
W
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William Boyd (writer)" (Quotes, The Blue Afternoon(1993))
“(p. 7).”
— William Boyd
1952 births
Living people
Novelists from Scotland
Short story writers from Scotland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, The House Gun (1998))
“page 113”
— Nadine Gordimer
Academics from South Africa
Novelists from South Africa
South African Jews
Jewish atheistsJ
1940 birthsJ
W
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William Boyd (writer)" (Quotes, The Blue Afternoon(1993))
“(p. 37).”
— William Boyd
# Society & Fellows of the Royal Society
J
J
Context: • p. 7
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kazuo Ishiguro" (Quotes, Never Let Me Go (2005):
All page numbers from the trade paperback First Vintage International Edition published by Vintage Books in March 2006 , Chapter 1)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kazuo Ishiguro" (Quotes, Never Let Me Go (2005):
All page numbers from the trade paperback First Vintage International Edition published by Vintage Books in March 2006 , Chapter 1)
“The idiot.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Academics from the United Kingdom
Booker Prize winners
Novelists from England
1954 birthsJ
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 1)”
— J. M. Coetzee
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 2)”
— J. M. Coetzee
# Society & University of Oxford alumni
Context: • Explaining to John Parker why he was being sacked from the government in 1946.
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
“Not up to the job.”
— Clement Attlee
1883 births
1967 deaths
Academics from England
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Context: • Press Conference for Washington Post and Newsweek (17 November 1988)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
“Marxism has had it.”
— Margaret Thatcher
Politicians from England
British peers
Context: • Tweeted during his participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tim Berners-Lee" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tim Berners-Lee" (Quotes)
“This is for everyone”
— Tim Berners-Lee
Computer scientists
Inventors
UnitariansContext: • Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 128.
• To Sydney Silverman, a Labour MP who had arrived back at Parliament with a beard. Echoes the motion "I move previous business" used at Parliamentary Labour Party meetings to end discussion on a topic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
• To Sydney Silverman, a Labour MP who had arrived back at Parliament with a beard. Echoes the motion "I move previous business" used at Parliamentary Labour Party meetings to end discussion on a topic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
“I move previous face!”
— Clement Attlee
“Cool URIs don't change”
— Tim Berners-Lee
# Society & Living people
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 4 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 5 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 9 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 11)”
— J. M. Coetzee
J
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 12)”
— J. M. Coetzee
# Society & Nobel laureates in Literature
Context: • On losing his position at the Admiralty in 1915. Said to Lord Riddell, as cited in Maxims and Reflections, Chapter I (On Himself), Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company (1947).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
“I am finished.”
— Winston Churchill
People from Oxford
1874 births
Context: • Act III (Sergius)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
“I never apologize.”
— George Bernard Shaw
1856 births
1950 deaths
Academics from Ireland
Playwrights from IrelandContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, The Quotable Gordimer (2014): Yonder Mark (ed.))
“Death's the discarder.”
— Nadine Gordimer
J
“That is how it begins.”
— J. M. Coetzee
Context: • Paragraph 4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" (1988))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" (1988))
“city and overseas people”
— Nadine Gordimer
More Quotes
Quote Copied!