Individual Isolation Quotes

Our nation, frustrated by its desire for full employment and political responsibility, is becoming a huge land of individuals who roam stranding in place, one eye on the television and the other on their passports.

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

I have no confidence in the system of isolation. It does not answer in social life for individuals, nor in politics for nations. Man is a social animal.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.