Ostracism Quotes

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.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.