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 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
“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty,… — Bell Hooks 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
“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
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose… — Katherine Dunham 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
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren 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
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
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
“So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d… — H. Alazhar Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Stability says there must be no evasion; instead attend to the real, to the real necessity however uncomfortable that might be. Stability… — Esther De Waal Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
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
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
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
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