Quotes About Exclusion

I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.

Getting barred from the White House is like being blackballed at the Playboy Club. There are definite advantages to having your name on the Ugly List in places like that.

a sound principle being that nothing was ever as one imagined it, and this was an efficient means of excluding the worst.

Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you're not one of those things you don't really fit in the game.

I used to say I didn't regret dropping out of school because it's what I had to do. But I do feel it. There are certain conversations I feel excluded from. When people talk about Greek history, I just have to sit there and listen. I excuse myself from games of Trivial Pursuit.

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the vilification of compromise; the knee-jerk expulsion of insiders who violate group orthodoxy; and the demonization of outsiders and the inability to substantively engage with their ideas, because we simply cannot step outside of our own.

It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

You would not want me on your football team.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.

So we'll leave him [Plato] to the philosophers and not try to make a novelist of him against his will; he excluded innovative artists from his ideal republic, so we'll exclude him from our republic of fiction.

Tayven knew a lot about Foy, but seemed ignorant of Misk, Jia, and Thrope. Rav didn't like the way they made him feel. They belonged to him, yet he felt that he belonged to them.

When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, "hurt feelings" is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.

Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

So much of what exists in the outside world is kept out of Molotschna, but curses, like pain, always find a way in.

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.