Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“Creating is often a solitary experience. Yet work made entirely in isolation is usually doomed to remain lonely.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separateness - the false sense of isolation that… — Jeraldine Saunders Copy Share Image
“...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to… — Irwin Kula Copy Share Image
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“So Bruce came to believe, as he put it, that “today’s flood of addiction27 is occurring because our hyperindividualistic, frantic, crisis-ridden society… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
“They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.” — Stephen Billias Copy Share Image
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image