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Quotes About Exclusion

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity, and every profession's jargon is meant to confuse and exclude those who aren't part of the guild.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.
~ Jay McInerney
When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe that anyone loves you for yourself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Dark could feel the familiar pain behind his eyes. His eyes were bars, and behind them was a fierce, unfed animal. When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But unity divides. Unity excludes. Unity polarizes. The corollary of the nation's unity is the elimination of any individuals or groups that disrupt that unity. People who do not concur with the nation's interests and goals, who persist in voicing their own private interests, who threaten the nation's unanimity are considered enemies to be banished or punished. Thus, the Rousseauian yearning for cohesion, solidarity, and oneness imposes the psychology of the purge.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them.
~ Jeannette Walls
Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded
~ Unknown
I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.
~ Unknown
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
~ Ai Weiwei
One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.
~ Min Jin Lee
A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.
~ Eli Yishai
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I sit at home and watch it with a bunch of close friends.
~ Brett Ratner
Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.
~ Betty Gabriel
For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.
~ Monte Irvin
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
~ Martin Scorsese
You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to parties and flowers will reach you on your birthday. When you are not doing well, you are really an outcast.
~ Farah Khan
I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.
~ Kane Brown
I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.
~ Krysten Ritter
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.
~ Michael Burry
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
~ Anne Rice