Displacement Quotes

Displacement Quote of the day

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.

Displacement of 'What goes around, comes around' is Zero.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.