Excluded Quotes

“The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

“I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“During COVID, we've all been kept out of things. Gorman's poem eloquently lists many of the things we've been kept out of. Then she wrote -

"Kept out of,
kept in,
kept from,
kept behind,
kept below,
kept down.
Kept without life.

Some were asked to walk a fraction of our exclusion for a year and it almost destroyed all they thought they were.

Yet here we are. Still Walking. Still kept.

To be kept to the edges of existence is the inheritance of the marginalized.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“this is the last house in summer
and now is the double loneliness
of missing a party you don't even want to be at.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr’s claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.”
― Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune

“[T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.”
― Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune

“Shame on me. Shame on me… It was excluding me from the Society by saying you. By saying yourself. And I could feel it. Every letter clung to my heart like a disease, and I couldn’t tell if I was going insane or if I was seeing things for the first time.”
― K. Weikel, Sameness

“Allow me to remain unique and distinct, God. I have no issue with being set apart or feeling excluded from the crowd. In fact, I embrace the idea of standing alone, as it allows me to maintain my individuality and authenticity.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

“Refusing to collaborate with a transendental, totalising and finally determining sense of national identity, Scottish novelists since the 1980s have concentrated instead on individual moments of crisis, alienation and fragmentation, moments dramatising the loss and discovery of self, as they are articulated through the lives of some of thos conventionally excluded from the story of Scotland.”
― Ian A. Bell, Studies in Scottish Fiction: 1945 to the Present