Alienation Quotes

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

Experience, Away, Rather

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing

Human, Destiny, Violence

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller

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

Work, Serious, Interested

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

Real, Young, Growing

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
Susan Lieberman

Family, Help, Confusion

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
Andrew Cuomo

Battle, Become, Physical

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

Life, Religion, Live

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
Bob Woodward

Him, Happen, Here

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

Society, Left, Present

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
Robert Teeter

Feeling, Another, Decisions

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

Human, Terrible, Advent

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

Black, Lose, Themselves

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
Terry Southern

Despair, Universal, Degree

I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
Richard Eyre

Time, Art, Away

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, Last

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, Process

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

Great, Father, Together

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
Nick Mason

Business, Audience, Eventually

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

Different, Same, Choice

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
Elmer Bernstein

Today, Feelings, Stop

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
Carrie P. Meek

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

Become, Progress, Biggest

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