Quotes About Alienating

She can see how this self-possessed child might appear to other children. But she doesn't believe that it's the way it must be; she doesn't believe that Poppy couldn't learn to enjoy time with her peers, to stop rolling her eyes at them and alienating them. She doesn't know, thinks Laurel, she doesn't know that this isn't how you grow up.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.