And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Unseeing, even when seen unfeeling, even when felt, to those scattered loves and the abashment that meet the eyes, I had tried… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President feels called upon to… — Hunter S Thompson Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Steffy risked a glance at her fellow neighbors and townspeople. She often looked for kindred spirits in the crowd. None were ever… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Turning love into a commodity contributed greatly to the expansion of modern alienation ... It is the love of an actual person… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
“Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [...] She's part of this city. Do you see?… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but… — Arjum Hasan Copy Share Image
What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well.… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In our relationships with others, we need to remain free, without becoming what they want us to be, despite ourselves, with no… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it,… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about… — Elmer Bernstein Copy Share Image
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