Us vs. Them Quotes

You are either with us or against us…

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

People are either with us or against us. If the line isn’t clear and there aren’t clear consequences, people migrate to the wrong side of the line.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.

Populism is an ideology that separates society into two homogeneous and antagonist groups.

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

He that is not with me is against me.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

This is the core claim of populism. Only some of the people are really the people.

Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, about the world, about masculinity, about power, about the empire that I don't share. Quite the reverse. Whereas in Bourne, I think encoded is much more scepticism. There's an us and a them, and Bourne is an us, whereas Bond is working for them.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

What everyone knows" is the line between us and them.

You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.