Quotes About Exclusion

Because we always lack more than we have, and because there are always more people who don't invite us than who do.

Because no one wants to see you,' sneered Kama. 'And no one can see you,' retorted Yama.

Every religion has a positive side that teaches love and inclusion, and a horrible side that celebrates hatred and exclusion.

In nature, nothing is contaminated. In culture, the polluted are cast out.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Discipleship means adherence to Christ, and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ.

The basis of spiritual community is truth, the basis of emotional community is desire. The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at the door.

Per ore, accoccolati sui talloni, a occhi semichiusi, quegli esclusi dalla felicità barattavano la dura realtà con qualche grammo di sogno.

women, in some parts of France, were barred from the chai, or winery, during harvesttime. Their presence, according to superstition, would turn the wine sour.

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

But now she regarded her sister with curious distance. She'd been so actively excluded from everything important to her she felt suddenly, intensely alone.

The table and chair legs were like bars of the cage around me. This time they weren't keeping me in, they were keeping her out.

and of course I wasn't invited,

There were times I feel left out anyway. Not in a romantic way, but a friend way.

Elaine and Mark don't know each other very well. The only thing those two have in common is me, and I get the feeling they're not crazy about each other. Well, it's more than just a feeling. Mark thinks Elaine talks too much, and Elaine thinks Mark is dull. The three of us don't hang

two of you were too busy stuffing your faces with pizza and he didn't want to interrupt. But I don't dare. I can't afford to burn any bridges with those two. Once they decide to freeze you out, you're done for. I've seen it happen. I'm hanging off the side of a precipice as it is, and the only thing keeping me there is Elaine. I look at her, and she shakes her head slightly.

want to say, he didn't come over and say hey because the two of you were too busy stuffing your faces with pizza and he didn't want to interrupt. But I don't dare. I can't afford to burn any bridges with those two. Once they decide to freeze you out, you're done for. I've seen it happen. I'm hanging off the side of a precipice as it is, and the only thing keeping me there is Elaine. I look at her, and she shakes her head slightly.

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

We don't serve time travelers here. A time traveler walks into the bar.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A home has a perimeter.