Us And Them Quotes

Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.And flaunting it isn't what saved you.Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in her jaw flex, relax. And that would be why I asked you do this, Cutter. But let's move on.So it goes on.

~ N.k. Jemisin

The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.

~ Haruki Murakami

With the evolution of Us came the evolution of Them.The original Them was anyone who wasn’t blood related — Them was pretty much everyone. Over time, as the number of people in Us got bigger, Them got smaller. Them now might mean anyone in any other country. This is a common Them in America, and a Them that only (light use of this word) consists of 95% of the world. Another common Them in America is anyone who isn’t Christian, which is a measly 68% of the world, or roughly 4.8 Billion Thems.In a relatively short amount of time, Us went from being a fraction of a percent of humanity and Them the rest, to some people experiencing an Us of more than two billion other people, far more than were ever alive at the onset of Us and Them.

~ Sam Killermann

The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear of one another is the only thing capable of our undoing.

~ Sam Killermann

I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into us (Westerners) and they (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends.

~ Edward Said

Ten wagons to choose from and you pick the only one that has a human on it. Racist.

~ Jeffery Russell