alien quotes

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

-Aeschylus
Supplices, l.202 (translated by H  Weir Smyth).

There is nothing new inThird World governments seeking to justifyand perpetuate authoritarian rule by denouncing liberal democratic principles as alien.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
  Freedom From Fear,'In Quest of Democracy'.

The only trulyalien planet is Earth.

-Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)
  'Which Way to Inner Space', in New Worlds, May.

But set down This, set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The  Journey of the Magi'.

Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto. I am a man, I regard nothing that is human alien to me.

-Terence full name PubliusTerentius Afer
  BC  Heauton timorumenos,77.

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