Best Pariahs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.”

Writing Real Stories School Culture Team Football Bears Involved High School Magazines Football Team Pariahs

Author:Tom Perrotta

“The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.”

Doe Sometimes Speak Voice Silence Dog Metaphor Bark Pariahs

Book:The Hindus: An Alternative History

Source: The Hindus: An Alternative History

“Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.”

Firsts Found Genius Honorable Honored Benefactors Pariahs

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.”

“The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.”

Night Found Sleep White Tree Dog Sorrow Eternal Garden Dawn Apples Mexico Wire All Night Fowl Moaning Drumming Telegraph Apple Trees Never Sleep Pariahs

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.”

People Years Made Self Winning Nations Party Revolution Twenties Curse Self Respect Allies Incapable Boast Deprived Foreigners Pariahs

Author:Erich Ludendorff

“[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.”

Suffering Class Outsiders Martyr Pariahs

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.”

Nations Untouchables Serbia Leper Pariahs

Author:Ivica Dacic

“We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”

World Should Seems Government Religion Principles Planets Equal Should Have Invisible Visible Pariahs

Book:History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.”

World States Difficult Existence Findings Virtuous Homosexuality Homophobia Colony Bisexuality Leper Dealing With It Admonition Pariahs Incorrigible

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!”

Source: Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

“Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars.”

Years Kind Has Beens Social Support Records Achieve Car Models Notion Pariahs Bentley Lamborghini

Author:Martin Winterkorn

“I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.”

People Wanted Artist Order Vision Hero Corners Devoted Cult Very Deep My Hero Vision Of Life Pariahs

Author:Jim Woodring

“A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.”

Men Art Black Position Genius Males Originality Desperation Great Art Afros Pariahs

Author:Ishmael Reed

“You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.”

“All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.”

May Hate Culture Identity Dresses Crowds Pops Arguing Complaining Meat Disappointed Pop Culture Gaga Pariahs

Author:Patrick Stump

“I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.”

Want Giving Done Running Fighting Social Football Frozen Realised Hood Pariahs

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.”

Ifs Hands Guy Policy Genius Agree Circles Disagree Outsiders Traitor Holding Hands Pariahs

Author:Seymour Hersh

“I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.”

Wells War Remember Speak Soldier Treated Korean Traitor Brainwashed Pow Pariahs Korean War

Author:Martin Scorsese

“When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.”

“Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.”

Want States Proud Korea North Korea Pariahs

Author:Edward Luck

“We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.”

Needs Ends Problem Realizing Car Months Perception Prison Exes Loan Convicts Pariahs Car Loan

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”

People Would Be Century One Day Defeat Jew Holocaust Survived Persecution Gave Up Pariahs Expulsion

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I don't consider myself a pariah.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.”

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned

“I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige”

Trying Doe Fall Social Doors Fronts East Village Freak Courtesy Showing Up Doorstep Pariahs Paige

Book:Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld

Source: Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld

“I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?”

Thinking Life Book Hard Problem Inspiration Values Asks Enjoy Rich Hard Work Like You Mom My Mom Useless Our Society Diploma Pariahs

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.”

War Decision Vietnam Architect Quests Vietnam War Pariahs

Author:Graydon Carter

“Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.”

Morality Slave Pariahs

Author:Georg Brandes

“Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.”

States Spiritual Social Religious Results Evolution Higher Discipline Civilization Excellent Lowest Brutes Social Status Pariahs Britons

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

Life Eye Sun Failing Morality Eternal Essence Eternity Shame Shining Equality Worthy Significance Animal Rights Living Things Inscrutable Vivisection Pariahs Eyes That See

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.”

People Men Dream Faces Young Proud Gay Young Man Closets Honored Old Woman Pariahs Dykes

Author:Arnie Kantrowitz

“I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they are; when we deny them our blessing on their commitment to lifelong, faithful relationships, we make them doubt whether they are children of God, made in his image.”

People Believe Children Made I Believe Community Church Doubt Blessing Commitment Treats Blame Deny Faithful Homosexual Lifelong Our Community Child Of God Pariahs

Author:Steve Chalke

“I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.”

Years Littles Sports Growing Up Growing Canada Skates Ankles Pariahs

Author:Neil Peart

“There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.”

War America Serious Treated Eras Communist Strain Pariahs

Author:Ken Follett

“The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.”

Happens Worst New York Hollywood Commit Producers Thrown Disgrace Bankruptcy Unkind Reviewers Pariahs

Author:S. J. Perelman

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

“Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.”

Mean States Able Guy Turns Causes Enjoy Technology Support Majors Circles Transfers Good Guy Rogues Charmed Mayhem Covert Pariahs

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.”

Ifs Reason Facts Earth Dog Tears Hero Miserable Idols Wretched Infallible Pariahs

Book:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

“I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.”

Long Soul Enough Care School Lost Views Known Team Streets New York Scene Drug Grades Nba Weed Marijuana Users Teammate Lost Souls Grades In School Quota Pariahs Funny Weed

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.”

“Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.”

People Two War Country Nations Economy Records International Fascism Ruined Saddam Hussein Identical Pariahs

Author:Ted Rall

“Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.”

Men Looks Soul Character Eye Care Names Pure Fame Men And Women Infinite Wave Spread Arise This Life His Eyes Sublime Lofty Bhakti Pariahs Tidal Waves

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.”

Ought Higher Fellows Educated Castes Pariahs

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."”

Art Poor Brother Proud Ignorant Indian My Brother Be Proud Destitute Pariahs Brahmins

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.”

Social Lowest Brutes Social Status Pariahs Britons

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.”

Want Two Plans Ideals Institutions Everyday Saint Practicals Sinner Sage Calcutta Pariahs Practical Life Brahmins Madras

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)”

Ifs Men Mean Wanted House He Man Glad Disciple Pariahs Brahmins

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.”

Ifs Giving Self Able Lasts Mother Universe Dog Missing Eternal Sight Infinite Misery Come Up Surrender Welcome Again And Again Crooked Pariahs Brahmins Undying Love

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.”

Ifs Way Law Divine Lows Devotion Serving Lowest Jewels Legislators Castes Pariahs

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

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