Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it…

“Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the…

— Margo V. Perkins

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall'…

— Nick Mason

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

— Jenny Holzer

“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all…

— Henry Miller

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,…

— Thomas Berry

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

— Jean Baudrillard

“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects…

— Loren Eiseley

“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.”

— Alex Kudera

“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the…

— Arjum Hasan

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag