Quotes About Otherness

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

You're not human tonight, Marlowe.

God is, in other words, wholly Other: the Mysterium Tremendum, to borrow Rudolph Otto's famous phrase.

We were meat to be bought and sold. Speaking Arabic made me a curious and unusual product. I didn't want to be special. I didn't want them to be curious about me.

imagining the scene when I would confront you who were the symbol of "the others.

When these early people looked at a stone, they did not see an inert, unpromising rock. It embodied strength, permanence, solidity and an absolute mode of being that was quite different from the vulnerable human state. Its very otherness made it holy.

What if we were to acknowledge that the nature of materiality itself, not merely the materiality of human embodiment, always already entails "an exposure to the Other"?

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

I feel like a stranger in my own world.

Mother of otherness, Eat me.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

See the moon? It hates us.

Sometimes I think that we're the aliens.

The idea that there could be beings that are to us as we are to animals is a belief in the supernatural.

The result has been strangely paradoxical: anthropological reflections on their own culpability has mainly had the effect of providing non-anthropologists who do not want to be bothered having to learn about 90% of human experience with a handy two or three sentence dismissal (you know: all about projecting one's sense of Otherness into the colonized) by which they can feel morally superior to those who do.

It sucks. I think you'd make a pretty snake woman, but I'm not really into that kind of girl. Those pointy teeth and slitted nose. Their mindless need to kill..." He shuddered.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.

Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.