Alienation Quote by R. D. Laing

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is…

— R. D. Laing

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

— Taylor Sheridan

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

— Tim DeChristopher

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still…

— Thomas A. Edison

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

— Richard Wagner

Violence diminishes our humanity.

— Coretta Scott King

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots…

— Philip Carr-Gomm

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity…

— Anonymous

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live.…

— Lewis Thomas

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi