Robert Greene

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

English Playwright

Lauren Willig

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

American Author

Alice Foote MacDougall

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.

American Chef

Robert Green Ingersoll

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

American Lawyer

George Eliot

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

British Author

Derek Jarman

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

British Director

Wes Craven

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

American Director

Helen Fisher

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

American Scientist

Using 'ostracism' can convey a strong sense of rejection and hurt feelings.

Emotional Impact

'Ostracism' often implies a collective decision by a social circle to exclude someone.

Group Dynamics

Ostracism is emotional or social, not a physical action of moving someone away.

Not Physical

'Ostracism' in history refers to a formal exclusion by a community, not casual social rejection.

Historical Context

In ancient Greece, ostracism was a serious penalty characterized by exile, not just feeling left out.

Serious Consequence

Historically, ostracism was sometimes used to protect the state from perceived threats.