Pariahs Quotes

• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Equality

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• They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

  Lester Bangs

  Dog, Hero, Idols

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor

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• By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Party, Winning, Self

  "My War Memories, 1914-1918". Book by Erich Ludendorff, 1919.

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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  Patrick Stump

  Hate, Identity, Meat

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• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  S. J. Perelman

  New York, Hollywood, Producers

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

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• In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Outcast, Integrated

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• Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

  Marc Webb

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.

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• When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.

  Wole Soyinka

  Horse, Children, Practice

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• [A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Class, Suffering, Outsiders

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• Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

  Graydon Carter

  War, Decision, Vietnam

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• I don't consider myself a pariah.

  Bernie Sanders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, Soldier, Korean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Technology, Circles

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• I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Everyday, Saint

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2179, Manonmani Publishers

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• I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld”, p.255, Vintage Canada

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• I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

  Jim Woodring

  Hero, Artist, Order

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Genius, Firsts, Found

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

  Jonathan Sacks

  People, Holocaust, One Day

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, School

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Fans, Sprung

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3266, Manonmani Publishers

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Past

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• Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Social, Brutes, Lowest

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Dog, Blow, Blood

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• Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Brother, Hate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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