Quotes About Alienation

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was always this weird outcast kid.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.