Deracinated Quotes & Sayings

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. — George Orwell

A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the Right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional - a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values. Conversely, the paleolibertarian grasps that ordered liberty has a civilizational dimension, stripped of which the libertarian non-aggression axiom, by which we all must live, cannot endure. — Ilana Mercer

For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. — Brene Brown

He met my gaze then. We were sitting very close. The irises of his eyes were amazingly clear and brown, like some exotic spice dissolved in brandy. You need a challenge, he had told me, and I found it right there in his gaze, along with the promise that not only was I going to lose but I would enjoy it.
-Ella's thoughts — Lisa Kleypas

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business. — Garth Brooks

You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you. — Cassandra Clare

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated. — Vikram Seth

Soul Mates mirror our Divine nature.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

The bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things. — Paul Bowles

Macbeth is a play that points to the advent, much like the turbulent last century of the Middle Ages, of a modern age gradually deracinated from its Christian grounding and increasingly enamored of a neopagan notion of virtu, of potentially infinite human achievement severed from metaphysical considerations. — William Shakespeare

So many people want to live their lives and their dreams through their own Facebook page or their Twitter page. They want to show every detail of their life to everyone in the world. That scares me because I don't have any Facebook page or Twitter I don't like it, I don't want it. — Emmanuel Petit

The greater your character the greater your destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo