Social Isolation Quotes

• Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

  Marc Bekoff

  Pain, Animal, Anxiety

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

  Luke Ford

  Space, Isolation, Far Away

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• If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

  Alex Steffen

  Media, Opposites, Long

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

  David Foster Wallace

  Marijuana, Emotional, Psychics

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• As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

  Alva Myrdal

  Loss, Wife, Suffering

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Depressing, Eggs, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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