Quotes About Them

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast, seem disgusting, ridiculous, simple, homogeneous, undifferentiated, and interchangeable.

but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.

not just her husband, not just Jake's father, but their guardian, the person who would protect them, the person who was supposed to prevent bad things from ever happening to either of them

For the moment we have not informed the Finnish people of them, as we have not wished to make the negotiations more difficult through public discussion.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't

the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

A dark provider skimmed lazily along above them. As it swept over their heads, it cast forth food for them.

Joy is a mark of Them, you see.

their naturally discreet style made them ideal channels for diplomacy.

and a fine new moon, delicate as an eyelash, hung above them in the sapphire sky.

Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.

Bright spring clouds cruise above them like vessels sailing to a parallel war...

the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk.

With all due respect, Fred, I'm the president of the United States. Let them in.

Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.

What are those? - Teeth. Wood. - But w... - I like to bite them back.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

I heard the mortal voices around as if they were kisses. I thought: You are among them, it is truly as if you were one of them. It is truly as if you are alive.

Let perpetual light shine upon them, O Lord, and may their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

This was all just a game to you, wasn't it, princess? 'Come, Zarek, sit on my lap. Tell me why you won't behave.' (His vision turned dark. Deadly.) Fuck you, lady, and fuck them. (Zarek)

His breath streamed the air between them; he was grateful for the drama of the effect.

We Americans" face a substantive problem of national identity epitomized by the subject of this sentence. Are we a "we," one people or several? If we are a "we," what distinguishes us from the "thems" who are not us? Race, religion, ethnicity, values, culture, wealth, politics, or what?