Ostracism Quotes

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

…it was the nature of man, when told that he should be shunned and despised and condemned as the cause of all the vice and misery and crime in the land, to retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

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

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

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

Resolved, That the said James Christie is and ought to be considered as an enemy to America, and that no person trade, deal or barter with him hereafter …. That the said James Christie be expelled and banished this province forever …

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.

Mrs. Hutchinson, the sentence of the court you hear is that you are banished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society

I've been banned from just about everything.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Include me out.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.