Quotes About Deracinated

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

White is an identity marker for the deracinated people who have no religion.

The bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things.

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.