Quotes About Ostracism

I've been banned from just about everything.

They will expel him who speaks the truth from nine villages.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

As recently as the fifties, respectable women were given the sexual choice of marriage or celibacy. Anything else meant ostracism. Women who demanded pleasure in sex were condemned as "nymphomaniacs," much as they are pitied today as "victims of male culture" by anti-porn feminists.

He was outcast from life's feast.

Silence, like Dante's hell, has its concentric circles. First come the internal inhibitions, self-doubts, repressions, confusions, and shame that make it difficult to impossible to speak, along with the fear of being punished or ostracized for doing so.

Ostracism is just another form of racism!

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.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

permití que el ostracismo y la amargura se adueñaran de mi existencia.

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, and the fear of being an outcast. The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking

It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, and the fear of being an outcast. The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Yes, quit the house and never darken the threshold of its doors again.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape.

In society at large, when people come out as gay they are celebrated for having arrived at their natural end-point. For most people this is a decent recognition by society that there is no problem with them being who they are: they have arrived at the place that is natural and right for them. But one oddity of this position is that anybody who is gay and then subsequently decides they are straight will be the subject not just of a degree of ostracism and suspicion, but widespread doubt

ABANNITION  (ABANNI'TION)   n.s.[Lat. abannitio.] A banishment for one or two years, among the ancients, for manslaughter.Dict.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.