Alienation (Problems of
Assimilation) because of Gender, Race, Class, or Creed:
The
following quotes illustrate the topic's ambiguity. Use these to establish
the scope of your topic--to begin to specify the subtopics that verbalize
various differing opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop a guide to
your reading.
"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 actsóbut
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, are 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), U.S. psychologist. ěAlienation,î ch. 5, The Sane
Society (1955).
"Without
alienation, there can be no politics." Arthur Miller (b.
1915), U.S. dramatist. Marxism Today (London, January 1988).
"Self-alienation
is the source of all degradation as well as, on the contrary, the basis of all
true elevation. The first step will be a look inward, an isolating contemplation
of our self. Whoever remains standing here proceeds only halfway. The second
step must be an active look outward, an autonomous, determined observation of
the outer world. [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772?1801),
German novelist, philosopher, poet. Blüthenstaub (Pollen), fragment no. 24
(1798).
"Hatred,
which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this
was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
"Hatred does
not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
Buddha
"Hatred is
the madness of the heart." Lord Byron
"Hatred is
by far the longest pleasure;
"Men love in
haste, but they detest at leisure." Lord Byron
"Hatred is
like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly." George
Eliot
"A good
indignation brings out all one's powers." Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"National
hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent
where there is the lowest degree of culture. " Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you hate
a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of
ourselves doesn't disturb us. " Herman Hesse
"Don't hate,
it's too big a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Sr.
"A man who
lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man."
Archibald MacLeish
"Like the
greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent."
Jean Paul Richter
"Few people
can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."
Bertrand Russel
"I shall
never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man."
Booker T. Washington
"You cannot
hate other people without hating your self." Oprah
Winfrey
"Hate is not
a good counselor." Victoria Wolff
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