Aliens Quote by Emma Goldman

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

— Emma Goldman

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

— Franz Boas

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit…

— Billy Bragg

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By…

— Calvin Coolidge

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

— Rolf Hochhuth

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is…

— Washington Irving

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part…

— John Stuart Mill

“According to a group of New England college students, writing in the year 1920, an alien was the following: "A person hostile to his…

— Walter Lippmann

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

— Francis Bacon

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange…

— Carl Sagan