Exclusionary Behavior Quotes

I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.

I'm not clique-y.

Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

I think the Democrat attitude is, "You know, we've toyed with you people for all these years, and we've been faking you out. We've been making it look like we want you in our club, but we really don't. We don't want... You're nothing but a bunch of foils, and we don't need you anymore, and we're just gonna wipe you out".

Trolls look for reasons to hate but really what they are mad at is the fact they are not included in anything ever.

Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they need them for sex. It comes from some weird immature tribal crap, I'm sure.

You could say I try to eliminate people.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary.