Alienation Quotes - Page 3

• I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

  Jon Crosby

  Anger, Simple, Escaping

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• 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.

  Bruno Bauer

  Self, Progress, Obstacles

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• Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

  Katherine Dunham

  Museums, Should Have, People

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

  Alex Campbell

  Drug, March, Advent

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• 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.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Father, Kids, Son

  Interview with Michelle Erica Green, www.trektoday.com. April 3, 2002.

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• I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Hollywood, Invisible

  1952 Invisible Man, prologue.

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• If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Song, Art, Epic

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• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Educational, Home

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• The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Mean, Organization, Everyday

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• 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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• Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

  Bob Dylan

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Angel, Stuff

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• There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Littles, Cures

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• Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

  Allen Lacy

  Knowing, Form, Primaries

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• 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.

  Kate Zambreno

  Roots, Political, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Groups, Outsiders, Separation

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Depression, Unique, Essence

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.87, Macmillan

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

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Self, Century

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.

  Richard Ford

  Summer, Morning, Moving

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.343, A&C Black

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

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Objectification, Spirit

  "The Beginning and the End". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1947.

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• Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

  Mike Birbiglia

  "Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalking Storyteller". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. December 03, 2010.

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

  David Steindl-Rast

  Inspirational, Ties, Gratefulness

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

  Mark Sheppard

  Peace, Opposites, Simplicity

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• I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

  Alec Baldwin

  Causes, Parental

  "Stars Lose Weight; Alec Baldwin Furor; Sandra`s Stalker". “Showbiz Tonight” with Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2007.

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