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• If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

  Byron Katie

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Punishment, Resistance, Consciousness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Life, Essence, Terrible

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• All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Kind, Separation, Estrangement

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• The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, People, Ironic

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• 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.

  Tobias Segal

  Dying, Want, Moments

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Distance, Believe

  "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

  Deborah Needleman

  Art, Believe, People

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• Spirituality has to play an important role, particularly in resistance movements. The institutions we are fighting against - corporations and governments - use alienation as one of their primary weapons. A big part of their messaging is intended to make people feel separated from each other, which disempowers them, which makes them ever easier to exploit. This is really a spiritual weapon they are using. It isolates people and breaks their spirit.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Spiritual, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Toil, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

  Che Guevara

  Important, Revolutionary, Aspiration

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.219, Ocean Press

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• Photography is the product of complete alienation.

  Marcel Proust

  Photography, Products

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• Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Abortion, Bitterness, Kind

  "The Way Things Ought To Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, 1992.

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• Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

  Austin Grossman

  Children, Hero, Heart

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• The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

  John Zerzan

  Keys, World, Firsts

  John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”

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• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

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• Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.

  Arthur Evans

  Real, School, Character

  Arthur Evans (1978). “Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy”, Bookpeople

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• When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Lonely, Mean, Healing

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• That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Mean, Despair, Desire

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

  Jerry Mander

  Self, Order, Firsts

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• To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

  Howard Zinn

  Hero, Past, Looks

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.13, Routledge

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• I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Thinking, Looks, Radical

  "Who Do You Love?". Interview with Donelle Woolford, www.tthheeffoorrreeesstt.com. 2012.

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• Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

  Paul Goodman

  Jobs, Party, Men

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Guilt

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