Top 253 Alienation Quotes & Sayings

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

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

I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

Photography is the product of complete alienation.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

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

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

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

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

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

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

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.

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

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

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.

I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

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.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

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

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

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.

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.