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Beijing needs to be very cautious about wading into a conflict between NATO and United States over the Ukraine, china's current economic ties with United States, including its energy needs, don't warrant Beijing risking further alienation and backlash from Washington and its allies. This could come back to haunt Beijing later. – Alex Capri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is an extraordinary rejection of the hard work for the church and the loyalty to the hierarchy which has characterized the movement for the Traditional Mass for many years, which I fear will foster a sense of alienation among those attached to the church’s ancient liturgy. – Joseph Shaw	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are taught in this culture to react to perceptions of scarcity with suspicion and attack, instead of practicing the idea of' compersion', or joy in someone else's joy, we are conditioned to respond to joy and success with,' You shouldn't feel good when I don't feel good.' This sets up a nasty cycle of blame-attack-separation, which ultimately fuels our epidemic of alienation and loneliness. – Damon Jacobs	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Children are unable to go to the schools in the city. So we at the bus come to them with knowledge and provide them with the learning essentials such as reading and writing and basic mathematics, the feeling of being displaced gives me the motivation to work with these children. I want to get children out of their sense of alienation. – Mawiya Shular	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is going to only deepen the alienation a great deal more. They( the government) can have a territorial control of the land, they can change the demography but the Kashmiri people themselves, their sense of alienation is only going to deepen further. – Harsh Mander	Found on CNN 4 years ago
In this new page in Istanbul, there will from now on be justice, equality, love, tolerance; while misspending (of public funds), pomp, arrogance and the alienation of the other will end. – Ekrem Imamoglu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
While the Iraqi government should work to hold the Islamic State accountable for its crimes against humanity, a full accountability would include crimes committed by Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces, a one sided inquiry will only fuel Sunni alienation at the hands of the Shia-led and Iranian influenced Iraqi government. – Bill Roggio	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A one sided inquiry will only fuel Sunni alienation at the hands of the Shia-led and Iranian influenced Iraqi government. – Bill Roggio	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's troubling – there should not be this level of alienation, we should try and build emotional bonds between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country. – Naeem Akhtar	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This alienation from Brussels makes some Germans yearn for a national party like the AFD that truly represents their own national interests. – Richard Herzinger	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You do not miss a chance to disparage the processes that underpin the existence of the EU, this is producing an extremely dangerous alienation from the EU among Italians ... a very dangerous scorn for Europe, for the dream of Europe we would like to make reality. – Mario Monti on Wednesday	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I worked hard here in Texas on the Latino vote by showing respect and my language was not one of alienation but one of welcome and unity, jeb's gonna do better than that. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Too many of the attacks against The HDP are not investigated, the social contract has been broken. . ( And this is) key to( the Kurdish) sense of alienation. If you carry on that way the social fabric unravels. – Hakan Altinay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I worked hard here in Texas on the Latino vote by showing respect and my language was not one of alienation but one of welcome and unity, jeb's gon na do better than that. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is this subset that is unhappy culturally, economically, internationally, christine Matthews is sort of exacerbating this alienation and anger and bringing it out. – Christine Matthews	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Parents generally live in shanties, schools are more expensive and cultural alienation is very high. In Delhi schools, children speak Hindi, for example, an alien tongue. – Dinabandhu Das	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. – Raoul Vaneigem	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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. – Eugène Ionesco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. – R. D. Laing	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Beijing needs to be very cautious about wading into a conflict between NATO and United States over the Ukraine, china's current economic ties with United States, including its energy needs, don't warrant Beijing risking further alienation and backlash from Washington and its allies. This could come back to haunt Beijing later.

– Alex Capri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is an extraordinary rejection of the hard work for the church and the loyalty to the hierarchy which has characterized the movement for the Traditional Mass for many years, which I fear will foster a sense of alienation among those attached to the church’s ancient liturgy.

– Joseph Shaw

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are taught in this culture to react to perceptions of scarcity with suspicion and attack, instead of practicing the idea of' compersion', or joy in someone else's joy, we are conditioned to respond to joy and success with,' You shouldn't feel good when I don't feel good.' This sets up a nasty cycle of blame-attack-separation, which ultimately fuels our epidemic of alienation and loneliness.

– Damon Jacobs

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Children are unable to go to the schools in the city. So we at the bus come to them with knowledge and provide them with the learning essentials such as reading and writing and basic mathematics, the feeling of being displaced gives me the motivation to work with these children. I want to get children out of their sense of alienation.

– Mawiya Shular

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is going to only deepen the alienation a great deal more. They( the government) can have a territorial control of the land, they can change the demography but the Kashmiri people themselves, their sense of alienation is only going to deepen further.

– Harsh Mander

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In this new page in Istanbul, there will from now on be justice, equality, love, tolerance; while misspending (of public funds), pomp, arrogance and the alienation of the other will end.

– Ekrem Imamoglu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While the Iraqi government should work to hold the Islamic State accountable for its crimes against humanity, a full accountability would include crimes committed by Iranian-backed Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces, a one sided inquiry will only fuel Sunni alienation at the hands of the Shia-led and Iranian influenced Iraqi government.

– Bill Roggio

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A one sided inquiry will only fuel Sunni alienation at the hands of the Shia-led and Iranian influenced Iraqi government.

– Bill Roggio

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's troubling – there should not be this level of alienation, we should try and build emotional bonds between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country.

– Naeem Akhtar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This alienation from Brussels makes some Germans yearn for a national party like the AFD that truly represents their own national interests.

– Richard Herzinger

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You do not miss a chance to disparage the processes that underpin the existence of the EU, this is producing an extremely dangerous alienation from the EU among Italians ... a very dangerous scorn for Europe, for the dream of Europe we would like to make reality.

– Mario Monti on Wednesday

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I worked hard here in Texas on the Latino vote by showing respect and my language was not one of alienation but one of welcome and unity, jeb's gonna do better than that.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Too many of the attacks against The HDP are not investigated, the social contract has been broken. . ( And this is) key to( the Kurdish) sense of alienation. If you carry on that way the social fabric unravels.

– Hakan Altinay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I worked hard here in Texas on the Latino vote by showing respect and my language was not one of alienation but one of welcome and unity, jeb's gon na do better than that.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is this subset that is unhappy culturally, economically, internationally, christine Matthews is sort of exacerbating this alienation and anger and bringing it out.

– Christine Matthews

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Parents generally live in shanties, schools are more expensive and cultural alienation is very high. In Delhi schools, children speak Hindi, for example, an alien tongue.

– Dinabandhu Das

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

– Raoul Vaneigem

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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.

– Eugène Ionesco

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

– R. D. Laing

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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