I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm 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
Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
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“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
![“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my head with my eyes wide open. I still don't know where I'm going; I decided I'm not crazy or alien. It's just that I'm more like one of those kids they find in remote jungles or forests []. A wolf child…” quote by David Wojnarowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49e/david-wojnarowicz-24572_alienation_i-lean-back-and-tilt-my-head-so-all-i-se_1571434.jpg)
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