Alienation Quotes - Page 9

• This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

  John Hurt

  Passing On, Worry, Acting

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Luxury, Evil

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• What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Men, Color

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• I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Convincing Evidence, Luxury

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• As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Son, Men

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Attitude, Hunting, People

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.

  Kallistos Ware

  Educational, Loss, Men

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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• How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Past, Able, My Own

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

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• ... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

  Albert Camus

  Want, Return, Stranger

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• Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Eye, Opportunity

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• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Temples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Men, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, West, Denominations

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Lying, Cutting, Past

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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• For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Objectivity, Ideas, Perfect

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• Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

  Orlan

  Self, Loving You, Narcissist

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• You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.

  Robert Thurman

  Knowing, Self, Suffering

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me things that don't appear to be true. Either I'm crazy or they're crazy." That creates the Absurd Child. The Absurd Child is one who says, "Well, I think they're crazy." So you live in this state of alienation from your culture and your society and your family because you see this rampant bullshit around you.

  Harold Ramis

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

  DJ Shadow

  Sadness, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

  Jessa Crispin

  Leaving, Culture, Made

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.

  Shauna Niequist

  Believe, Water, Suffering

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