Alienation Quotes
133 quotes by 122 authors
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify…
— Herbert Marcuse
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It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.
— Marilyn Wann
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A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can…
— Deborah Needleman
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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and…
— Jimmy Page
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I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your…
— Richard Ford
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The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
— Tom Robbins
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I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only…
— Judith Levine
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Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
— Guy Debord
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I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation…
— Knut Hamsun
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We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
— Tom Robbins
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The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
— Che Guevara
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We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their…
— Nel Noddings
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
— Juan Goytisolo
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Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to…
— Questlove
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In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous…
— Richard Louv
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Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and…
— Richard Louv
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The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
— Mark Sheppard
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Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to…
— Herbert Read
Who Wrote These Alienation Quotes
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