Without alienation, there can be no politics.

- Arthur Miller

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

- Alan Ball

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

- Alex Campbell

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

- Bruno Bauer

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

- Charles Kennedy

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

- Carrie P. Meek

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

- Guy Debord

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

- John le Carre

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

- Judd Nelson

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.

- Katherine Dunham

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

- Mike Birbiglia

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

- Mal Peet

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

- Rod McKuen

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

- Steve Erickson

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

- Terry Southern