Alienation

I have read and heard a good many statements by eminent writers and speakers to the effect that our liberty of which we are justly proud is an achievement, and not a gift. In the sense that it had to be worked for, fought for, and preserved with vigilance these statements are true. But let it never be forgotten that our concept of liberty is a gift. No human is the author of that concept. Many great men have so recognized it as did Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence and declared that 'men are endowed with certain inalienable rights.' Why are these rights inalienable Because men did not create the right to liberty In the exercise of his free agency he may surrender his privileges, and his property, and he may become the slave of others or of the state, but his free agency is as native to him as the air he breathes. It is part and parcel of his eternal constitution, and Jefferson was 'righter than I think he himself knew' when he declared it an endowment which cannot be alienated. The message which we bear affirms that God is the Author of our inalienable liberty that men, all men are of noble lineage, sons and daughters of the Eternal Father and that liberty is their birthright. I thank God that... noble men were blessed with this lofty concept of man's inherent right to liberty and that they were prompted to incorporate these divine principles in the organic law and history of our favored land.

- Stephen L. Richards Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

- Bob Dylan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

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Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.

- Erich Fromm Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Now, my evil sense of alienation is eliminated, since I have heard the Praises of the Lord with my ears.

- Granth Sahib Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

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In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

- Erich Fromm Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Standing in front of signs that had the words Special interests ... healthy skepticism that has become widespread cynicism bordering on alienation.

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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

- Jean Baudrillard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

- Erich Fromm Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

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Without alienation, there can be no politics.

- Arthur Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

- Eugene Ionesco Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By understanding Evil just as well as Good, the human being will understand itself and with this it will disappear the self alienation of man at an individual level as at the social level.

- Sorin Cerin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

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To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane.

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When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

- Elmer Bernstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values. He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.

- Dennis Potter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I love you. I call you. I always seek you in my heart. Now that I found you, what else can I say, maybe the most painful adieu in my entire life, my beautiful, adored, consuming soul mate.I would like to hug you, but I know I cannot touch what is above me, above my life, above this piece of breath, and I am so alien to my self. I know you are the one that can bring me out from the alienation I am in, that you are my only truth for which I exist in this world. I also know that without you, the entire world would fall apart, but it as true that beside you, the entire world would be consumed and what remains then I also know that the ineffable destiny will always keep the doors opened as if there would be any meaning as long as no one can go out through them. This is a vanity too. It is also a vanity the fact that all the opposites attract and all the things that go in the same sense reject. Thus Good will always be attracted by Evil, and Evil by good and the good of Good will be precisely the Evil while the good of Evil what we understand through Good. The soul mates are as the pair of Good and Evil.

- Sorin Cerin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

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Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

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I know of no law government can use for that. The nearest there is are the regulations of the Alienation of Land Act, but its terms are too narrow to be the basis of a moratorium.

- Charles Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

- Isaac Singer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes