Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities. — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
“The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for… — Jon Crosby 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
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
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
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
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
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel 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
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
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
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.” — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.” — Don DeLillo 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
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder… — Richard C. Morais Copy Share Image
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his… — Juan Goytisolo 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
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
