Quotes About Displacement

Pain is thus the actual reaction to loss of object, while anxiety is the reaction to the danger which that loss entails and, by a further displacement, a reaction to the danger of the loss of object itself.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

If he changes his country, his drama merely begins again: exodus is his seat, his certainty, his chez soi.

Chao ôi! Chi?n tranh là cõi không nhà, không c?a, lang thang kh?n kh? và phiêu b?t v? ??i, là cõi không ?àn ông, không ?àn bà, là th? gi?i b?t s?u vô c?m và tuy?t t? kh?ng khi?p nh?t c?a dòng gi?ng con ng??i!

It was hard to imagine feeling more out of place than she did at that moment.

is entirely appropriate that in twenty-first-century Britain streets that were once filled with artists now contain Britain's highest concentration of advertising agencies; real artists displaced by the counterfeit, the second rate; creative individuals prostituting their talent.

Reason cannot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

There is no question that automation is - and has been since the start of the Industrial Revolution - displacing workers and creating disruption within the economy and labor market.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.'

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

In the January that I turned thirty-five, sleep became a foreign and hostile country. I had never been more than what one might call a refugee in the country of sleep;

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.