Definition of Alienation

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Alienation

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

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Alienation Quotations

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

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

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alienation Translations

alienation in Latin is abalienato

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