Yossi Ghinsberg

I think we suffer from certain alienation. We live on this planet, but we somehow have an idea that we're elevated from it, that we're not nature. We're a creature that manages nature and is superior and does whatever it wants. That creates a separation between humanity and the rest of the planet.

Israeli Entertainer

Jerry Greenfield

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

American Businessman

Feist

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

Canadian Musician

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

American Actress

Hubert Selby, Jr.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

American Writer

Hilton Als

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

Shelby Steele

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

American Author

Daniel Kaluuya

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

English Actor

Ginuwine

You don't alienate the people that helped you and started you out.

American Actor

Gary Lineker

English Footballer

Understand that 'alienate' implies negative emotions and could show someone's actions causing hurt.

Emotional Impact

'Alienate' often implies a gradual process, not an immediate change in social dynamics.

Non-instantaneous

The action that causes alienation may not be intended to isolate; it's often an unfortunate result.

Passive Result

In a legal context, 'alienate' might not involve feelings but instead refer to the act of property transfer.

Legal Usage

When talking about property, 'alienate' is a formal term often found in legal documents or discussions.

Property Specific

'Alienate' suggests a subtle way of making someone feel unwelcome, without direct confrontation.

Subtle Exclusion

'Alienate' can mean creating a figurative distance in a relationship or social connection.

Distance Creation

 in an instant these websites are where racist skinheads can influence alienated youth you search on you know adolf hitler research on nazism you get a lot of modern day nazi websites they start telling you you know you think this way but here's the truth your parents are lying to you the government's lying to you and they start

Skinheads Recruiting...

 and one brother feels alienated from the others. Second person is a less common choice. It requires the writer to make the reader suspend disbelief to become another “you.” Placing the reader in a character’s perspective can build urgency and suspense. Sometimes, though,

First person vs. Second...

 was bigger than a personal quest I came to know many people living with Alzheimer's people who felt stigmatized and alienated much like cancer was 50 years ago the general public was too afraid of this monster of a disease to openly look at it or talk about it and I

What would you do if...

 Many publishers were not quite so encouraging. One large children's publisher ironically said that they didn't work with children. Children's publisher not working with children? I don't know, you're kind of alienating a large client there.

What adults can learn...

 We throw out historical symbols, we rely on new, computer-aided design techniques, and we come up with new compositions, forms crashing into forms. This is academic and heady stuff, it's super unpopular, we totally alienate you.

Why the buildings of the...

 For him the world is pointless and moral judgment has no place in it. This attitude creates hostility between Meursault and the orderly society he inhabits, slowly increasing his alienation until the novel’s explosive climax.

Is life meaningless? And...

 The feelings that people today have of alienation and loneliness and not finding their place in the world, I would think that the chief problem is not global capitalism. The chief problem is that over the last hundred years,

Nationalism vs....

 you can get over trauma pretty quickly. And if you come back to an alienating, modern society, you might remain traumatized your entire life. In other words, maybe the problem isn't them, the vets; maybe the problem is us.

Our lonely society makes...

 do we really want to be? And when we engage people in those questions, in finding the answers to those questions, then I believe that we have a much better chance of addressing the alienation and disaffection from politics

Why governments should...

 a website for teenage girls that was not this kind of one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing because I think one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that