Quotes About Alienation

she had not yet learnt that the loneliest place in this world is the no-man's-land of sex.

When the proximate community is dysfunctional, alienated individuals need some other way to channel their need to belong.4 Populist nationalism offers one such appealing vision of a larger purposeful imagined community—whether it is white majoritarianism in Europe and the United States, the Islamic Turkish nationalism of Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or the Hindu nationalism of India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

Like the characters in the short novel Men in the Sun, by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, however, they did not always find this route easy, for it often involved alienation, isolation, and, as when Palestinians attempted to cross frontiers with their refugee papers, even tragedy

our postwar residential areas are extremely hostile to strangers, outsiders, and new residents of the area.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Here in Canada, I haven't people, I haven't family, I haven't friends. So I'm not happy here.

I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.

Growing up, I never thought that I would fall into any category. I felt like I didn't fit in anywhere.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we're elevated from it, that we're not nature. We're a creature that manages nature and is superior and does whatever it wants. That creates a separation between humanity and the rest of the planet.

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

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

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

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

Two things are certain: 1) people no longer care what happens to other people, and 2) nothing makes any real difference any longer.