Disaffection Quotes

#1. It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. In the late '60s, Senator Charles E. Goodell, Republican of New York, spoke out against the Vietnam War, bringing on the wrath of the Nixon administration and, as it turned out, the disaffection of conservative voters.

George Vecsey

#3. Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Susan Sontag

#4. The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#5. When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

William Cobbett

#6. 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.

Sophie Hayes

#7. Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete.

Jonathan Martin

#8. Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

Harlan Ellison

#9. Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

Darryl Pinckney

#11. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

Hilary Kornblith

#13. I stuck my finger in his belly button
and squiggled it around.
Belly button rape!

Jennifer James

#14. The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is

Sunday Adelaja

#15. When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it ... You'll wake up with ashes.

Zachary Taylor

#17. Everything was green, so green it went into him.

Gary Paulsen

#18. Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

#19. The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.

Rae Armantrout

#20. Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness.

Toba Beta