Quote by Gemma Malley

“We, the weird and the sideways folk, have always walked the line of rejection. It’s what makes us visionaries. We who are pushed away,…

— G.L. Carriger

“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

“In the modern world, those whom we effectively hate are distant groups, especially foreign nations. We conceive them abstractly, and deceive ourselves into the…

— Bertrand Russell

“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it…

— Northrop Frye

“We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief. The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.”

— Toba Beta

“Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who…

— Tinnekke Bebout

“Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and…

— Eric Maisel

“We are never very far from those we hate. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love.”

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

— Ronald Reagan

“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.”

— Edgar Allan Poe