Social Ostracism Quotes:

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

- Gabor Mate

topic: Hurt, Pain, Emotional, Social Ostracism, Physical Pain

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

- Derek Jarman

source: Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

topic: Pain, Taken, Dying, Social Ostracism, Afraid Of Death

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.429, Penguin

topic: Men, Two, Challenges, Social Ostracism, Ostracism

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

- Alice Foote MacDougall

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Hardship, Social Ostracism, Ostracism

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Heterosexuality Is, Cost, Poverty, Social Ostracism, Ostracism

The only thing that goes with Crocs is social Ostracism.

- Maddox

source: "Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

topic: Ostracism, Social, Crocs, Social Ostracism

Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.

- Suzanne La Follette

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Social Ostracism, Ostracism

...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

- Rheta Childe Dorr

topic: Sex, Boys, Opportunity, Social Ostracism, My Boys

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.

- Charles Krauthammer

source: "Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol". www.washingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

topic: Attitude, Winning, Trying, Social Ostracism, Ostracism