Exclusion Quotes

• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  George Washington

  Education, Wisdom, Religious

  Noah Webster, George Washington (1806). “Elements of useful knowledge: containing a historical and geographical account of the United States”, p.217

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• The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way Forward, Justice, Path

  "In Africa, a step backward on human rights" by Desmond Tutu, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2010.

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• No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Doubt, May

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.75

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• Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, People, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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• I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

  Tom Glazer

  Numbers, Discipline, People

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• When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

  George Eliot

  Wish, Literature, Deals

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.123, Oxford Paperbacks

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• We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

  Claudio Hummes

  Order, Justice, World

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• When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.

  Sue Johnson

  Hurt, Pain, California

  Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

  James Madison

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

  "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785)

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• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Party, Political, Literature

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• I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

  Oscar Romero

  Country, Lying, Roots

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• The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

  Alvaro Uribe

  Dream, Hatred, Equity

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• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

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• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Passion, Dying

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

  Jim Hightower

  Wall, People, Political

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• Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

  Lou Reed

  "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

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• I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

  Toni Morrison

  People, Racist, Insult

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• Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Sowing, Partnership

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.272, Vintage

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• I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

  Neil Simon

  Believe, Moving, Effort

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• Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Bliss, Excluded

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

  Albert Claude

  Knowledge, Science, Errors

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• I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

  Daniel Goldstein

  Exercise, Thinking, Self

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• Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Responsibility, Men

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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