When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Stability says there must be no evasion; instead attend to the real, to the real necessity however uncomfortable that might be. Stability… — Esther De Waal Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“The idea of the family as a protective haven is a myth, the family unit cannot provide the haven it promises. On… — Nicola Field Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
![“That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as well. It resonates with this moment and the sort of alienation from the power structure a lot of people feel, as well as a certain amount of…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/46e/peter-van-agtmael-25908_alienation_that-kind-of-unease-that-melancholy-is-o_172380.jpg)
![“What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in…” quote by John Hurt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/586/john-hurt-1669_acting_what-i-like-about-berthold-brecht-it-s-v_1814403.png)
![“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my head with my eyes wide open. I still don't know where I'm going; I decided I'm not crazy or alien. It's just that I'm more like one of those kids they find in remote jungles or forests []. A wolf child…” quote by David Wojnarowicz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/49e/david-wojnarowicz-24572_alienation_i-lean-back-and-tilt-my-head-so-all-i-se_1571434.jpg)
