“ When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. ”
- Ralph W. Sockman- Copy
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“ Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. ”
- Preston Manning- Copy
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“ The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it. ”
- Leos Janacek- Copy
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“ Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. ”
- Henry Drummond- Copy
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“ The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ Speech is civilization itself. The word… preserves contact — it is silence which isolates. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ”
- Maurice Blanchot- Copy
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“ For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought — the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ Isolating yourself is not healthy spiritually, mentally, or physically, and it is certainly not the way to achieve a better life. I believe nobody makes it alone… always keep in mind your relationships. Nurture them, build them, and lean on them when you need to… ”
- Stedman Graham- Copy
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“ If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole. ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
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“ It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States. ”
- Zack de la Rocha- Copy
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“ I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating… because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks. ”
- Bell Hooks- Copy
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“ I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
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“ The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others. ”
- Gamal Abdel Nasser- Copy
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“ To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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