Alienated Quotes
120 quotes by 106 authors
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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they…
— Rita Dove
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
— Karl Marx
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Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
— Erich Fromm
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It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
— David Foster Wallace
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated…
— Tim LaHaye
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
— Loren Eiseley
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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I…
— Brennan Manning
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Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me…
— Henry Rollins
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of…
— Paulo Freire
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Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised…
— Bill Watterson
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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever…
— Gore Vidal
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Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him…
— Timothy Keller
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After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.
— Dorothy Rowe
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion…
— Michel Foucault
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How can you be alienated without first having been connected?
— Donald Barthelme
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For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
— Michael Pollan
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My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root…
— Stephen Lang
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I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
— Raymond Loewy
Who Wrote These Alienated Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 120 Alienated Quotes, led by these top contributors: