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Quotes About Alienate

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
~ Ron Chernow
Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can't afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.
~ Lionel Sosa
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
~ Mark B. Cohen
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
~ Samuel Adams
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
~ T. D. Jakes
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
~ Noam Chomsky
I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.
~ George Coyne
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
~ Eddie Vedder
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
~ Ron Chernow
To ABSTRUDE  (ABSTRU'DE)   v.a.[abstrudo, Lat.] To thrust off, or pull away.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind--dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.
~ John Ashbery
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
~ Eleanor Catton
I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
~ Alexa Vega
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
~ C. S. Lewis
Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn't run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or alienate the media, which is what Trump is doing, he is doing it actively.
~ Masha Gessen
The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very
~ Nick Hornby
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level.
~ Hal Duncan
The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
~ Jerry Greenfield
I would argue that growing up in a Republican area actually makes me a lot more of a viable candidate than someone who is going to demonize and alienate someone who used to be a Republican or used to vote Republican.
~ MJ Hegar
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.
~ Steven Pinker
So what's the left's motive here? The short-term motive is simple: use the illegals to portray Trump and the Republicans as racist or anti-Mexican and also anti-immigrant. The point is to alienate Trump and the GOP not from illegals, who can't vote, but from legal immigrants and Mexican Americans, who can.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
~ J.M. Coetzee
If prayer do not constantly endeavour the ruin of sin, sin will ruin prayer, and utterly alienate the soul from it.
~ John Owen