R. D. Laing Quotes About Alienation

Quotes about: Alienation

• The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Learning, Men

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

• We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Destiny, Men, World

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Mind, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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

  R. D. Laing

  Fate, Destiny, Diversity

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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