Alienation Quotes
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 who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.
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.
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.
Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.
This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.
Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?
I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.
In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.
All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I
It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.
The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.
This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.
I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.
It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.
