Social Disconnect Quotes

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

We've reached a truly remarkable situation: a grotesque mismatch between the American intelligencia and the American electorate.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.

The left has lost the common touch.

New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

How many of you text message? It's a great way of not communicating.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.

I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.