Outsiders Quotes - Page 4

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders. Outsiders called them rapacious but this was simply their jealousy speaking - when one is freed from sexual desire, or sexual desire is transmuted into work, suddenly the world becomes engorged with possibilities.

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

let's do it for Johnny

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

... love is banality to all outsiders.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I got born in the wrong family.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.