Quotes for All
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It’s the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking … Read more
For me, places are articulations of ‘natural’ and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded – which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not ‘given’ – they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense … Read more
The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth. Dean Spade
Even if you haven’t had the exclusivity conversation, they’re still going to be mad if they find out you’re dating someone they know and you haven’t mentioned it. It’s a dating rule. Well, how am I supposed to know that rule? Everyone knows that rule. I thought you were supposed to be on my side. … Read more
There can be no great love without exclusivity. Carol Grace
Yale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God’s creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation. … Read more
At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum – “How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?” Ravi Zacharias
In the culture of pluralism…the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
R. C. Sproul