Quotes for All
Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world. Ezra Miller
Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack. Ezra Miller
There’s [in Outcast] so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain. Eyedea
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved … Read more
I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors. Ethel Waters
Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You’re not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67 Erin Hunter
I’ve always felt a little different than everyone – you know, most of the other kids in my class – and I didn’t quite see things the way they did or I didn’t experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast. Erin Davie
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism. Erich Fromm
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. Eric Hobsbawm
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to … Read more