41 Alienation Quotes for You to Enjoy

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

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 Increases Adding Alienation Collectivism Rather Economic Countries Sadly Inefficiency Does Historical Lack Socialist Away Basic Necessities

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass

Time Me You Change Strange People Sometimes Alien People Change Think Alienation Later About Seem He Feel Him Am Were His Years Child Person Trying Childhood Happened Decipher Certain Stranger Things

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.' Glenn Greenwald

Me Gay You Light Rejection Alienation Way Say Ways Kids See Take Instead Feel Know Accept Judgmental Judgments Dealt Impose Imposing Same Going Different Them Turn Flaws Your Standards Who Different Ways

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction. Steven Wilson

Loneliness Technology World Living Alienation Disconnect Dominated Dysfunction Dystopia

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

You Abandonment Alienation Put Arrest

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules. Charles Kennedy

People Result Power Alienation Rules Those Rigidity Subject Centre

I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. Kyrsten Sinema

Politics Seen Think Increase Alienation Those Rapid About Civility Hostility Between Participation Democratic Concerned Opinions Governance Years Led Very Which Public Decline Who Differing Tone Recent Recent Years Bipartisanship

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again. Alice Sebold

Time Me Evil Thought Think Alienation Would Would-Be About Shakes Having Troubling Never Comfort Felt Up Lack Heaven Again Inherently Whole Growing Growing Up Milk

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat. Amitava Kumar

Life Death Degree Think Alienation Detail Rituals Road Combat Feel Journeys Towns Because Malls Reported American Cannot Grand American Life

Without alienation, there can be no politics. Arthur Miller

Politics Alienation Without

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

Culture Alienation Feels Him Clinton Happen Agree Washington Profound Here

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator. CeeLo Green

Art Alone People Others Alienation Intimate Way Stems Most Opinion Doing Oppressed Repercussions Afraid Place Creator

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents. Cory Booker

You Anger People National Pain Guard Alienation Those Carried Out Response Riots Allegedly Troops Protect Understand Coming Were Lot National Guard Sending After Newark Explosion Who Initial Residents Here Violence

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities. Daniel Kaluuya

Racism Worldwide Alienation Felt America Just Different Capacities

Remember, I'm the guy who didn't want the referendum - I wouldn't have had it if I'd been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that's a recipe for more political alienation. Ed Miliband

You Respect People Remember Political Recipe Alienation Response Minister About Guy More Had Prime Prime Minister Voted Partly Because How Been Referendum Want Ignore Who

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation. Ehud Olmert

Humiliation Bitterness Poverty Sense Living Neglect Alienation Unrelenting Environment Disconnected Been Up Camps Decades Grew Which Deep Many Palestinians

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 You Feelings Nowadays Think Films Our Alienated Alienation Colleagues Kind About More Contact Stop Where Much Many

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music. Genesis P-Orridge

Music Made Rejection Incredible Took Alienation Finally Way He Industrial Rock How Encapsulate Traditional Get Form Public Found

Alienation Quotes

No more alienation quotes