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Quotes About Exclusion

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
~ Oscar Wilde
I tell you this, as war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be? You ain't nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
We're all being left out one way or the other. The survivors miss being heroes. The heroes miss being alive. The only ones not left out are the ones who never went in.
~ Cynthia Bass
If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos...Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Odd, eccentric people they were, these entertainers. Most of them had a streak of imagination, and most of them drank. Most of them were middle-aged. Most of them had an abstracted manner; in ordinary life, they seemed left aside, somehow. Odd, extraneous creatures, often a little depressed, feeling life slip away from them. The cinema was killing them.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
An Attack on the fundamental democratic foundation-Modern European white industry does not even theoretically seek the good of all but simply of all Europeans.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
America has its purpose: it must serve that purpose to the end: I look upon the future as certain: our people will in the end read all these lessons right: America will stand opposed to everything which means restriction--stand against all policies of exclusion: accept Irish, Chinese--knowing it must not question the logic of its hospitality.
~ Walt Whitman
History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who
~ Walter Isaacson
The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.
~ Charles Maurras
Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
~ Charles Stross
European humanism usually meant that only Europeans were human.
~ Charles W. Mills
1924 U.S. (Federal) Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, limits the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. It completely prohibits immigration from Asia.
~ Charles Yu
she was not 'cool' enough to be in such a position – a legacy of her school experiences, perhaps.
~ Chas Newkey-Burden
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks 'em.
~ Kin Hubbard
A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.
~ Donna Brazile
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
~ Harold Bloom
One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe