“Being customers in our society is dangerous. It alienates us from each other. People will prefer to spend long and lonely hours… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
“Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater” which coheres us, but we, in modernity, are living in a… — Toko-pa Turner Copy Share Image
Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Spirituality has to play an important role, particularly in resistance movements. The institutions we are fighting against - corporations and governments -… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from… — Wendy Rose Copy Share Image
“Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the so-called Christian State it is true that alienation counts, but not the individual. The only individual who counts, the king,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Human beings, who were created to live in harmony with each other, the earth, and God, now find themselves distanced from or… — Margaret Kim Peterson Copy Share Image
Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there… — Jeaniene Frost 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
“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
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