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Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
— Attila Kotanyi
If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
— Muriel Barbery
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
Consciousness is a process of constant alienation. The mind, through reflection, confronting itself.
— Alena Graedon
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
— Bob Woodward
Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?
— Alisia Compton
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.
— Richard Greenberg
I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
— Donna Lynn Hope
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
— Ivan Turgenev
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
— Matt Groening
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
— Terence McKenna
This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.
— Guy Debord
Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
— Sorin Cerin
That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.
— Don DeLillo
It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.
— James Rozoff
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
— Boyd Rice
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
— Arthur Miller
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.
— Olivia Sudjic
Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
— Susan Howatch
There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
— Thomas Hardy
I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.
— Frederic Raphael
I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)
— Frans De Waal
I want to be two people at once. One runs away.
— Peter Heller
The void can only be filled with love.
— Marty Rubin
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
— Terry Southern
The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)
— Michael Ben Zehabe
I miss my old life
— Richard C. Morais
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
— Judd Nelson
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that? — Charlie Kaufman
Is there anything more lonely than that? — Charlie Kaufman
Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it.
— Betsy Wing
His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
— Irvine Welsh
It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.
— Steve Erickson
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
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
— Karl Marx
The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.
— Terry Eagleton
Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things!
— Christopher J. Fennell
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.
— Marty Rubin
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
— Maxwell Maltz
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
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
— Carrie P. Meek
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.
— Tim DeChristopher
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.
— H. Alazhar
I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills ... Take control of your world.
— Warren Ellis
[T]here is now a void at the heart of everything. But then there is so much more of everything now!
— Phil Smith
All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder than I
— Richard C. Morais
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West — Carl R. Rogers
- Ellen West — Carl R. Rogers
The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.
— Erich Fromm
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
— Jenny Holzer
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
— Ricardo Semler
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.
— Marilyn Nelson
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely.
— Jason Daniel Chaplin
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
— Barack Obama
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
— Daniel Klein
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
What is alienation? Thought.
— Marty Rubin
With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.
— Sarah Black
You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.
— Mark David Henderson
I'm all groan up in America.
— Brian Spellman
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.
— Paula Gunn Allen
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
— Robert Silverberg
A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words,
— Susan Sontag
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
— Jerry Mander
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.
— Nathaniel Branden
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
As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.
— Albert Camus
Our call is to an engaged alienation,
— Russell D. Moore
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
— Erich Fromm
The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp.
— Bonnie D. Ford
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.
— Kate Zambreno
Trees're always a relief, after people.
— David Mitchell
A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.
— Kobo Abe
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
— Guy Debord
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
— Steve Maraboli
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
— Che Guevara