Alienation Quotes
133 quotes by 122 authors
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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels…
— Saul Bellow
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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 spiritual heritage, we…
— Nhat Hanh
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between…
— Eugenio Montale
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Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their…
— Katherine Dunham
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid…
— Rene Auberjonois
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie…
— Ralph Ellison
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There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
— Eric Hoffer
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You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
— Carrie P. Meek
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While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific…
— Eric Maisel
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is…
— Alain Badiou
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Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
— Matt Groening
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If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor…
— Andrew Cuomo
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
— R. D. Laing
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Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a…
— Pope John Paul II
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I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious,…
— Susan Sontag
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
— Bob Woodward
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