Aliens Quotes - Page 30

• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Men, Tongue

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Mars, Invasion

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Science, Profound

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 49, 1799.

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• Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.43, Penguin

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• Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

  John Donne

  Men, Doubt, Phrases

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462

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• But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

  David Brin

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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• It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Energy

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• I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"

  Charlize Theron

  Games, Watches, Thrones

  Source: collider.com

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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• I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

  Zoroaster

  Teaching, Heart, Men

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• The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

  Northrop Frye

  Travel, Past, Europe

  Northrop Frye (2013). “The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, Looks, Use

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

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• States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Justice, Bears, Criminals

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• I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

  Claire Forlani

  Years, Skins, Green

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• In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

  Gerhard Richter

  Names, Information, Painting

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Kyoto, People

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob Africa of every bit of its wealth for the satisfaction of their race and the upkeep of their bankrupt European countries.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, Race, Desire

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.60, The Majority Press

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• Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Secret, Earth

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2016). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1485, eBookIt.com

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• The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.

  Mikky Ekko

  Real, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

  Walter Hill

  Excited, Offers, Effects

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• The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

  Georg Baselitz

  Change, Artist, Ideas

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• Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.

  James Gunn

  Motivation, Writing, Mind

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• I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.

  Josh Marshall

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, America, Law

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIII, 1835.

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