“ALIENATION IS WHEN YOUR COUNTRY IS AT WAR AND YOU WANT THE OTHER SIDE TO WIN.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
“[Our errors] represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what's wrong… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
My point is that the alienation of theory and practice, intellectual and manual labor, is a real issue, but it's the outcome… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
“Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The separation of the individual from a corporeal relationship with the Soul is mirrored in the separation of the individual from nature.… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“They call themselves believers and thereby signify that they are pilgrims, strangers and aliens in the world. Indeed, a staff in the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Political economy tends to see work in capitalist societies as divided between two spheres: wage labor, for which the paradigm is always… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d… — H. Alazhar Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image