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

“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

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

Alex Kudera

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

“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

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

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

“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

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

Jenny Holzer

“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

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

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

“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest playlists and…

Jaime Allison Parker

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West…

Billy Graham