Quotes about Alienation

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Trees're always a relief, after people. — David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of — N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it — Karl Marx
No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity continue — Thomas Ligotti
Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From — Roger Waters
Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what i — Erik Pevernagie
I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home. — Angus McLinn, "Baby Teeth" Songs of my Selfie
This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's po — William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing peop — Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Mrs. Arnold," the doctor said, coming around the desk, "we're not going to help things any this way.""What is going to h — Shirley Jackson, Colloquy
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. — Steve Maraboli
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their — Norman Manea
Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal world, and the — R.D. Laing
The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote — Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of cert — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this soc — Terence McKenna
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultiva — James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporad — Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in t — Jeremy Griffith