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Quotes About Us

Al leaned close, voice dangerous as he whispered, "We don't forget, Rachel, and it's not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us.
~ Kim Harrison
The manoeuvres of the US imperialists for 'globalization' and 'integration' are aimed at turning the world into what they call a 'free' and 'democratic' world styled after the United States, and thus bringing all countries and nations under their domination and subordination.
~ Kim Jong Il
Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?' demanded the Woggle-Bug. 'It's a trial of one kitten,' replied the Scarecrow; 'but your manner is a trial to us all.
~ L. Frank Baum
Dangers don't hurt us. Only things that happen ever hurt anyone, and a danger is a thing that might happen and might not happen, and sometimes don't amount to shucks.
~ L. Frank Baum
Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright.
~ Patricia Russo
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
~ Chinua Achebe
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
~ Alain de Botton
Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, 'we' and 'they'.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
the twenty-first century religions don't bring rain, they don't cure illnesses, they don't build bombs—but they do get to determine who are "us" and who are "them," whom we should cure and whom we should bomb.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, 'we' and 'they'. We are people like you and me, who share our language, religion and customs. We are all responsible for each other, but not responsible for them. We were always distinct from them, and owe them nothing. We don't want to see any of them in our territory, and we don't care an iota what happens in their territory. They are barely even human.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
In the US, the technical term for a limited liability company is a 'corporation', which is ironic, because the term derives from 'corpus' ('body' in Latin) – the one thing these corporations lack.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any other lover-- at least, until it buckles beyond us.
~ Yxta Maya Murray
History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185)
~ Deborah Levy
The grand prize in us versus them is that somebody gets to feel special for a while. The grand prize in the game of unity is that everyone gets to feel special forever.
~ Deepak Chopra
Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
~ John P. Kotter
She watched us go with envious fear.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The economy's not a car, there's no engine to stall, No expert can fix it, there's no "it" at all. The economy's us, we don't need a mechanic, Put away the wrenches, the economy's organic.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!
~ Emily Bronte
So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it.
~ Emily Giffin
asked Mother. She said we might, if Mrs Stick will make us
~ Enid Blyton
It creates within America a virtuous Us and a demonized Them.
~ Amy Chua
People who mean harm have it over the rest of us. They always win. And the only thing to do is to keep away from them.
~ Amy Witting