Quotes About Exclusion

We fall into clans: Jocks, Country Clubbers, Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders. I am clanless.

Is it any wonder that I absent-mindedly take the entrance marked Aliens Only whenever I enter?

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.

I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

Siempre y cuando uno no olvide que lo que antes era invisible -la cuota de intimidad de cada uno, la vida interior de todos- ahora es expuesto en la escena pública, uno comprenderá que quienes procuran la invisibilidad están condenados al rechazo, a la exclusión, condenados a ser sospechosos de algún crimen. La desnudez física, social y psíquica está a la orden del día.

el "multiculturalismo" (y el "culturalismo en general), en su esfuerzo por proporcionar un apoyo académico (o, para ser más precisos, una pátina promocional) a la práctica multiculturalista, es en sí mismo un ejercicio de encubrimiento. Lo que intenta tapar y expulsar del debate público es la cruda realidad de la discriminación y la privación sociales.

Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento

El rasgo más prominente del condominio es su "aislamiento y distancia de la ciudad. […] El aislamiento implica la separación de todos aquellos considerados socialmente inferiores".

Las uniones no tienen en qué apoyarse salvo en el chateo y los mensajes de texto; la unión sólo se mantiene gracias a nuestra charla, nuestro llamado telefónico, nuestros mensajes de texto. El que deja de hablar queda fuera. El silencio es igual a la exclusión.

To this day, most attempts to stage the history of transatlantic slavery in museums have stood out through their vacuity. In them, the slave appears, at best, as the appendix to another history, a citation at the bottom of a page devoted to someone else, to other places, to other things. For that matter, were the figure of the slave really to enter into the museum, such as it exists nowadays, the museum would automatically cease to be.

Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.

The worst punishment you can give a man is to isolate him. I've never seen one who can handle it.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

Madame Verdurin might come to understand the mechanisms by which people are excluded from social circles; she could learn to make light of her frustration, confess to it directly, even throw out a teasing remark to Swann asking him to return with a signed menu, and in the process might become so charming that an invitation to the Élysée would make its way to her after all.