FastSaying

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Norman Manea

alienalienationassimilationcivicsemigrationestrangementimmigrationsociety

Related Quotes

When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...
— Donna Lynn Hope
alienationestrangedestrangement
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
— Claudio Magris
emigrationimmigrationxenophobia
إلى أنْ تحامتني العشيرة كلها وأُفردت إفرادَ البعيرِ المُعَبَّدِ
— طرفة بن العبد
alienationarabsestrangement
I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
— Donna Lynn Hope
alienated-grandparentsestrangedestrangement
Immigration really disrupted the social fabric back in Germany when the younger people left. We only know about this because someone saved these letters back in the 1800s and without them we have no clue as to what happened and what people had to deal with back then.
— Ray Grasshoff
EmigrationEuropeGermany