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Quotes About Exclusion

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
~ Milan Kundera
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
~ Liz Phair
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
~ Lou Reed
When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.
~ Kieron Gillen
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
~ John Shelby Spong
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
~ Pope Francis
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
~ Gerry Adams
We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
~ Pope Francis
The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
~ Auguste Comte
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
~ Paul Simon
Ostracism is just another form of racism!
~ Mary-Ellen Peters
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
~ Marvin Bell
Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!
~ Jean Harlow
In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.
~ Pope Francis
One of the ironies, as some have observed, is that the secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of a religion – including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake – social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns.
~ William Barr
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
It is as if the Victorians succeeded in colonising not only India but also, more permanently, our imaginations, to the exclusion of all other images of the Indo – British encounter.
~ William Dalrymple
He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So
~ William Graham Sumner
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
~ William Hazlitt
He yearned for the words. It was an affliction, this constant clutching for words. It felt as if he had been excluded from a conversation.
~ William Landay
His face was as welcoming as a turned back.
~ William McIlvanney
Es muy violento sentirse excluido del dolor del otro cuando uno lo que quiere es compartirlo
~ David Foenkinos
Insofar as there is a politics, here, it seems a variation on a theme seen since the dawn of capitalism. Ultimately, it's sociality itself that's treated as abusive, criminal, demonic. To this, most ordinary Americans—including Black and Latino Americans, recent immigrants, and others who were formerly excluded from credit—have responded with a stubborn insistence on continuing to love one another.
~ David Graeber