Top 30 Quotes About Ostracism

#1. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

John Steinbeck

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#2. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

Lauren Willig

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#3. At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.

Paul Graham

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#4. Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#5. Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

Jon Stewart

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#6. Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

Bill Jensen

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#7. The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Stewart Brand

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#8. Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

John Sculley

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

Derek Jarman

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#10. I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

Felicity Huffman

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#11. A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

Martin Bashir

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#12. Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

Joyce Carol Oates

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#13. I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

Wes Craven

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#14. It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Betty Smith

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#15. The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

David Brooks

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#16. Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!

Deyth Banger

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#17. Ostracism makes individuals feel they lack purpose, have less control over their lives, are less good moral beings, and lack self-worth. Those high school cliques aren't uniquely adolescent experiences: Human beings hate being left out. We conform because to do so seems to give our life meaning.

Anonymous

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#18. I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#19. Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

Adrienne Rich

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#20. You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#21. In my society, even the right things are wrong.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#22. I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

Meera Syal

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#23. 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.

Lee Maracle

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#24. You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

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#25. Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

Helen Fisher

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#26. The only thing that goes with Crocs is social Ostracism.

Maddox

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

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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#28. Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole.

Harry Hay

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#29. In a culture rife with power and position, where the home bespoke volumes, shame would not be the path of choice for anyone. Had the virgin birth not been true, to assert that truth would be the path of cultural ostracism, if not suicide for all of them.

Ravi Zacharias

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

Robin Wasserman

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