Alienation Quotes

133 quotes by 122 authors

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. — Alex Campbell
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have… — Jean Baker Miller
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there;… — Colin Gunton
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it. — Boyd Rice
We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality,… — Hans Rookmaaker
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the… — Thomas Berry
Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still… — Andrea Dworkin
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this… — Thomas Berry
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's… — James Taylor
Without alienation, there can be no politics. — Arthur Miller
I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility. — Gregory Crewdson
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. — Tim DeChristopher
I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation. — Alec Baldwin
I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really… — Felicity Huffman
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do — Judd Nelson
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Attila Kotanyi
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of… — Robert Teeter

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