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There is only
one way left to escape the alienation of present day
society: to retreat ahead of it.
-- Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist
Although the
masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got
nothing, Ma, to live up to.
-- Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter
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
1900-1980, American
Psychologist
Human beings
are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be
compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of
living in this way. Therefore not only does the system
alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity
supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as
a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of
people's own failure as individuals.
-- Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright,
President
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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
1912-, Romanian-born French
Playwright
Alienation as
our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence
perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
-- R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British
Psychiatrist
We are bemused
and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one
another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad,
even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
-- R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British
Psychiatrist
Without
alienation, there can be no politics.
-- Arthur Miller
1915-, American Dramatist
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