{"quotes":[{"text":"The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.","author":"Kambiz Shabankare","tags":["alienation","anti-elitism","anti-intellectualism","bogus","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","intellectual","intellectualism","irrationalism","knowledge","problem","propaganda","respect","rhetoric","scholar","scholars","society","undermined"],"id":9115,"author_id":"Kambiz+Shabankare"},{"text":"Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["alienation","arrogance","charity","kindness","taking-people-for-granted"],"id":9376,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii).","author":"Michael Ben Zehabe","tags":["alienation","commentary","family-business","homeschool","jonah","quitting","shame"],"id":15784,"author_id":"Michael+Ben+Zehabe"},{"text":"If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["alienation","atavism","race"],"id":20380,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.","author":"Stephen Chbosky","tags":["alienation","angst","life","teenager"],"id":21107,"author_id":"Stephen+Chbosky"},{"text":"This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.","author":"Guy Debord","tags":["alienation","reification","spectacle","technology"],"id":22367,"author_id":"Guy+Debord"},{"text":"Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... Neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.","author":"Joss Whedon","tags":["alienation","buffy-the-vampire-slayer","confusion","frustration","humour"],"id":30086,"author_id":"Joss+Whedon"},{"text":"Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.","author":"Sarah Black","tags":["alienation","invisibility","loneliness","storytelling","writers"],"id":35571,"author_id":"Sarah+Black"},{"text":"...It really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hides their on fears and hurt.","author":"Sophie Hayes","tags":["alienation","disaffection","prostitution","stereotyping","stigma","teenagers"],"id":36442,"author_id":"Sophie+Hayes"},{"text":"The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Robert Silverberg","tags":["alienation","aliens","anthologies","humanity","life","loneliness","science-fiction","short-stories","solitariness","solitary"],"id":40477,"author_id":"Robert+Silverberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":105,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}