estrangement

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The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.

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Only through dialogue and exchanges and mutual respect can we promote goodwill and resolve the estrangement between the two sides of the strait. Eric Chu

Nature ... has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship. Philo

Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement. Starhawk

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. E. Stanley Jones

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Theodor Adorno

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. Herbert Marcuse

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