Georg Simmel Quotes

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

With most people, strangers are not only enemies, but inferiors.

It is normal to hate what we fear, and it happens frequently, though not always, that we fear what we hate. I think it may be taken as the rule among primitive men, that they both fear and hate whatever is unfamiliar.

If we can look at another human being and categorise them as 'illegal,' or that chilling American word 'alien,' then what has become of our own humanity?

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

America has been a very cold place to me, and it was good once in a while. I meet good people. Sometimes I meet bad people. But there are some things that I still haven't forgotten today that hurt that bad.

Whenever I go to a new team the jabs about being a Harvard guy are always more prevalent. This is mainly because people don't know much about me other than being the Harvard guy that did well on his Wonderlic test. The more time I spend with people, the less the Harvard stuff comes up.

I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

I want to say that I can be Moroccan and speak about someone without speaking about his nationality. Because, you know, I have the feeling that when you come from Morocco, when you come from Afghanistan, when you come from Africa, Occidental people always wait for you to write a novel about identity.

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

I'm used to being judged. I know what that feels like.

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.