Neon Hitch Quotes

I belong nowhere and to no one.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Outside the pale of society, language is just as useless as an eye in darkness

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

… the submerged tenth

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.