Quotes on Alienation

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.

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

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.