Quotes About Exclusion

The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our voices are essential aspects of our humanity, to be rendered voiceless is to be dehumanized or excluded from one's humanity. And the history of silence is central to women's history.

Religion engenders both inclusion and exclusion. It spawns as much conflict in society as it does cohesion.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

No one's permitted in except contractors, owners, and local officialdom (plus President Obama and our big candied yam of a governor).

The conviction that religion must be rigorously excluded from political life has been called the charter myth of the sovereign nation-state.

In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul.

They just seemed to define themselves by not being the other faction.

She felt as if she had been on the outside of happiness her whole life.

Bridget wouldn't let Trixie come to Mrs. Dodds's house, she said she would never hear the end of it. "She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

I am the odd man out in the family.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.