Alienation Quotes

• The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

  Billy Graham

  Our World, White, Numbers

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Despair, Acid, Form

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• 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.

  Michael Jackson

  Healing, People, Despair

  "Michael Jackson, death by showbusiness" by Mick Brown, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Loneliness, Self

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Evil, Capitalist

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• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Thinking, Everyday

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• Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intervention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

  B. W. Powe

  Loneliness, Consciousness, Rebellion

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Cost

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• The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

  Pope John Paul II

  Country, Socialist Countries, Historical

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Men, Machines

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

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Far Away, Exile

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• You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

  Charlie Kaufman

  Lonely, Dna, Adaptation

  Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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• You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Abandonment

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

  Jenny Holzer

  Outsiders, Revolutionary, Produce

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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

  Marilyn Wann

  Self Esteem, Home, Profound

  "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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

  Guy Debord

  Choices, Different, Mask

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.45, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Men, Despair

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  World, Found, Framework

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

  Roland Barthes

  Society, Way, Retreat

  "Political Culture and Public Opinion". Book by Roland Barthes, p.175, January 1, 1989.

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• Without alienation, there can be no politics.

  Arthur Miller

  Politics

  1988 In Marxism Today, Jan.

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

  Judd Nelson

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Real

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Juan Goytisolo

  Respect, Country, Expression

  "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.

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• 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”

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