Exclusion Quotes - Page 6

• All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

  Tacitus

  Moral, Ancient, Ethical

  Cornelius Tacitus (1912). “Tacitus, The Histories”

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• The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Essence, Materialism, Appearance

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• It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.

  Stephen Harper

  Men, Law, Support

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• I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.

  Janet Mock

  Real, Believe, Empowering

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Focus, Defense

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.

  Greg Boyle

  Eye, Acceptance, Unconditional Love

  Greg Boyle (2011). “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Real, Focus, Environmental

  Gregg Easterbrook (1995). “A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism”, Viking Press

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• Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

  James MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religion

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2015

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• Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the exclusion of other sensual matters, so in the end that life was easy to give up, since it contained nothing: even my mother's voice couldn't make him change or turn back as he believed that once you can't love another human being you have no place in the world.

  Louise Glück

  Mother, Giving Up, Father

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• Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Identity, Consciousness, Contradictory

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• We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

  Rick Santorum

  Looks, Shelter, Pay

  Interview with John Berman, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

  Moby

  Different, Way, Kind

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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• A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

  Anna Godbersen

  Husband, May, Waking

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

  Annie Lennox

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox: 'The world has become more sexualised'". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2012.

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• People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Exercise, Caring, Animal

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on the Morality of Vegetarianism". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. December 11, 2009.

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• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

  Josef Pieper

  World, Demand, Grasping

  Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc

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• To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, United States, Paper

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

  Anne Bronte

  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why human rights must not be ignored but given even greater prominence in times of economic crisis.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Insecurity, Income

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• We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts based on poverty, discrimination and exclusion (social, economic and political) that continue to plague humanity and destroy decades of development efforts. The vicious circle of human rights violations that lead to conflicts-which in turn lead to more violations-must be broken. I believe we can break it only by ensuring respect for all human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Rights, Circles

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• When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Searching For Love, Stipulations

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• The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Christian, Men, Feminist

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• The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.)
  Denial of Agency: She didn't write it.
  Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it.
  Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about.
  False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"?
  Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.61, University of Texas Press

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