Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“And with the laws, the punishments—and there were only two—a quick and murderous fight or ostracism; and ostracism was the worst.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I was concerned that if I came out of the closet, that at best, I would face ostracism, and at worst, face… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Regarding punishment, we've learned from the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and other famous men not only that times have changed, but also… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“This exile is a fascinating symbolic act from our modern psychoanalytic viewpoint, for we have held in earlier chapters that the greatest… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of… — Emanuel Derman Copy Share Image
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“Stat Watch 67 words In a survey 91% of university staff members said they had been ignored, avoided, shut out of conversations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference,… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“Ostracism makes individuals feel they lack purpose, have less control over their lives, are less good moral beings, and lack self-worth. Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
