Quotes About Belonging

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Nella vita quotidiana sono il classico solitario, ma la consapevolezza di appartenere alla comunità invisibile di quelli che lottano per la verità, per la bellezza e per la giustizia mi ha risparmiato ogni sensazione di isolamento

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.

Pour être un membre irréprochable parmi une communauté de moutons, Il faut avant toute chose être soi-même un mouton.

Almanyadaki semitizm karsitliginin ayni zaman bir Yahudi acisindan bakildiginda da hos karsilanmasi gereken somuclari var. Bana kalirsa alman yahudileri, surekli varliklarini, semitizm karsitligina borclular... Bu ayrim olmadan Almanyadaki yahudilerin asimilasyonu cabucak ve engelsiz gerceklesirdi.

Para ser un miembro irreprochable de un rebaño de ovejas hace falta primero ser oveja.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Every one belongs to every one else.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Nu-i mai bine s? r?mîi acas?? S? prinzi r?d?cini? R?d?cinile devin îns? lanÈ›uri.

But I do, he insisted. It makes me feel as though … he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. But everyone belongs to everyone else, he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.

At Malpais he had suffered because they had shut him out from the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized London he was suffering because he could not escape from those communal activities, never be quietly alone.

Here nobody's supposed to belong to more than one person. And if you have people in the ordinary way, the others think you're wicked and anti-social.

But every one belongs to every one else.

Jer u obi?nom, svagdašnjem svijetu ljudskih odnopsa bio je neobi?no nalik na stranca. Nelagodno se osje?ao me?u ljudima i bilo mu je teško ili ?ak nemogu?e zapodjenuti razgovor bilo s kime osim s onim koji je govorio njemu vlastitim, intelektualnim jezikom ideja. U emocionalnom je pogledu bio stranac.

Las burlas le hacían sentirse como un forastero; y, sintiéndose como un forastero, se comportaba como tal.

Everyone belongs to everyone else, after all.

But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though . . ." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?" But