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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

  Will Cuppy

  Civilization, Hermits, Persons

  Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Terrible, Dehumanization

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.344, e-artnow

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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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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  Alan Watts

  Intellectual, Inability, Accepting

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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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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• We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Company, Persons

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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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• 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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• Without alienation, there can be no politics.

  Arthur Miller

  Politics

  1988 In Marxism Today, Jan.

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• I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

  Susan Sontag

  Wake Up, Passionate, Engagement

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

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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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• 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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• Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Success, World

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9424, Delphi Classics

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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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• A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Walkers, Lone, Audience

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.36, Granta Books

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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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