Quotes About Outcasts

You're always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.

Without any doubt, criminals feel like social outcasts and bear enormous toxic shame.

I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

If you want to get your outcasts out of sight, first you need a ghetto and then you need a prison to take pressure off the ghetto. . . . Short-term terror and revulsion are more powerful than long-term wisdom or self-interest.

We are to be agents of His great upside down Kindgom, where the outcasts are listened to, the broken are given dignity, and those suffering under the weight of sexual exploitation are rescued and healed.

In the schoolyard they had begun to gravitate toward each other, as outcasts will if they have not yet been taught to despise themselves.

People talk of "social outcasts." The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a "social outcast" from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

Há mais de dez anos que fumadores como ele eram perseguidos e caçados pelos indivíduos bons e saudáveis, com pulmões rosa, deste mundo. Em breve os fumadores seriam afastados para o campo, na província.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores