Quotes About Them

On the rise above them the aluminum church glowed silver in the afternoon light.

He had to hate them, to move the smothering shroud of hatred from himself to them. He closed the door of his room behind him, and almost snatched the drink from under the bed.

I have never belonged to a tribe. It gives me a different perspective. Perhaps if I did, I too would feel ill at ease in Les Marauds. But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - to little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.

He was yelling at them all to follow. Claire didn't want to; she didn't trust them, any of them. But the boy took her hand, and said, Trust me, Claire, and she felt something inside her that had been howling in fear...go quiet.

So much affirmation ends up sounding like a murder of crows passing overhead and it is easy to be afraid of murder-by-crow-- though sometimes you have to start flapping your arms and follow them.

We had just herded them up and slaughtered them, the first encounter between mankind and another intelligent species.

the point is this: to pique somebody's curiosity, you must associate your products with something that will help them survive.

We got out Jack, me and you. But it leaves scars. My scars draw me to kids like these . . . your scars draw you to people like your missing man. We know them because we're seconds away from being them.

There was no latent snobbery in us; we didn't find any in them. It was only that we could feel a deep and sincere difference between us and them, a difference which everyone struggled with awkward fortitude to bridge.

Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet.

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

We really need to find a cure for stupidity, and fast! I've heard it's contagious...No wonder why there's so many of them.

So, I'm awkward with actual humans. It's not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it's not them; it's me. I know I'm a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.

I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest. Covering conflict, I learned that though leaders often try to create a sense of "us" and "them," the differences are not that delineated. I often felt like it was a whole bunch of "us," with some of "them" scattered around. That made me feel that the borders we draw around ourselves are often artificial.

In fact the destination was Boulogne, where Napoleon would be waiting for them from 10 June onwards

You remember. And so Us against Them became the world. But the more fear is used to motivate people, the more afraid they will become, the more fear will come to define their lives.

Demagoguery is about identity. It says that complicated policy issues can be reduced to a binary of us (good) versus them (bad). It says that good people recognize there is a bad situation, and bad people don't; therefore, to determine what policy agenda is the best, it says we should think entirely in terms of who is like us and who isn't.