Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have. Orson Scott Card
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit. Mark Kingwell
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. Rudolf Arnheim
And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan. Mikhail Lermontov
Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome. Hartley Coleridge