Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own… — Attila Kotanyi 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
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
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the realm of… — R.D. Laing 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
“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
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation. — David Steindl-Rast 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
“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that? — Charlie Kaufman 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
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate… — Orlan Copy Share Image