Exile or banishment is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suffer exile, but sometimes social entities like institutions are forced from their homeland.

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Exile or banishment is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suffer exile, but sometimes social entities like institutions are forced from their homeland.

Notable quotes

“You can't make up for two thousand years of exile in a few years.”
— Chaim Weizmann. Quoted by Project Herzl.
“EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“You are engaged with an elsewhere that cannot be reached: Isn't that the defining characteristic of exile?”
— Breyten Breytenbach, "The Exile as African", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 181.
“When you are exiled from a space, you are exiled from a time.”
— William H. Gass, "Exile", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 219.
“… political exile is not exile from influence.”
— Massimo Introvigne, "Kang Youwei: A Confucian Monarchist in the New World", Bitter Winter (March 2, 2026)
“No, my good lord: banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 4, line 520.

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