Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
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.
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.
It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and yet another to Freud; so it is not possible to give a single definition, one that will exhaust the subject. It is a question bordering on philosophy, and I'm not a philosopher nor a sociologist. My business is to tell stories, to narrate with images - nothing else. If I do make films about alienation - to use that word that is so ambiguous - they are about characters, not about me.
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.