Edmund Burke Quotes

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

Though a man escape every other danger, he can nether wholly escape those who do not want such a person as he to exist.

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Black man, you are on your own.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

I was ostracized by my community.

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I was taunted because I was different.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.