Alienation Quotes

Alienation Quote of the day

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

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.

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

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 live in alienation.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

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 an element of alienation in your life.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

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 of our past.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

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

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.

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, be passionate, wake up.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Photography is the product of complete alienation.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.