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.
I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.
If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.
