Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.

She's making progress. It affects her conditioning. It's hard for her to be sharp. It affects her teammates because they're not making the same plays to the same person in practice.