Xenophobia Quotes

“If anything, technology allows us to be dumb without consequence.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Who are you?” the man asked in reply, raising his eyebrows. “Who gave you the right to abuse the evolutionary pedigree of almost four thousand million revolutions around this star? Who gave you the right to systematically decimate a planetary life system? You plunder and squander this planet for your own selfish ends with no regard for life.” “You are stewards,” the woman continued in a notably calmer voice. “That is all. You are passing through, not staying. Your lives are fleeting. Your concern should be to extend the life of your planet into the future, not to exploit all you can now.” “How long do you think Earth will survive under your reign?” the man asked. “Honestly? In the last hundred orbits, you’ve strip-mined the planet, tearing down forests, decimating ocean stocks, polluting the land and sea. How far will you go? How long will you persist at the expense of life? Another one or two hundred orbits? And then what? Then you’ll leave this planet a husk, an empty shell.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“So, is it a seed?” Elvis asks. “Are they planting alien marijuana?”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Reading from one of the transcripts, an example of an exchange is: We come in peace. We come from a star. We come in peace. We come from afar.” Elvis can’t help himself, blurting out, “It’s Dr. fucking Seuss! The goddamn Cat in the Hat is back.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Understand?” Perhaps that’s what humanity has been missing all this time—understanding—as understanding is all that ever keeps the demons at bay.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“For her, it’s typical of humanity’s approach to just about everything. A few people care. Most don’t.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“What a stupid, fucked up world. There’s no merit, no compassion, no understanding.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“How do you know that? Maybe they’re just like us, doc. I mean, think about it, what is peace? I’ll tell you what peace is—peace is an illusion, a dream. We came in peace at Plymouth Rock, and look how that turned out for the natives. You wanna know what peace is, doc? Peace is conquest. Peace is submission.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“When I was a child,” Elvis said, stepping softly into the discussion, “I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“We’re tribal. We like people to be the same as us.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Domestic cats are different. Apart from lions, there are no cats that move in packs, so they see their inclusion in a family as being part of a litter, and as such there will be parents and other kittens, your children. When your cat brings a live mouse into the house, they’re trying to teach you and your kids how to hunt. They must think we’re stupid when we never catch any mice of our own.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Sometimes the right decision is the hardest decision of all. We came here to make a difference. We can no longer do that. As much as I hate to say it, it’s time to leave.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.” — Carl Sagan”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Fine specks of dust fall from the back of the alien craft, trailing behind it.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Two is one, one is none. It means, ensure you have redundancy.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Peace is conquest. Peace is submission.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“To get lost is to learn the way.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Morals rarely keep up with technology, and collective intelligence can drop away. As life becomes more abstract, more divorced from reality by technology, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s right and wrong.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“But death is something that happens to other people, not her, and yet now that delusion is being stripped bare.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“The reality is, these artificial designations of country and race hold no bearing other than what people have made of them.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“There was nothing to fear. Her fear was of the unknown, it was irrational.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“With hope and fear as equal possibilities, why not choose the positive?”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“Life should never end that way. Life is too precious. No matter how dark the night, the world keeps turning, there’s always a dawn. Even if someone’s on the other side of the world, they’re never more than a phone call away, you know.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“There’s little in the way of common ground between us and other animals. Think about dolphins. Cute, cuddly, friendly dolphins. Everyone loves dolphins, right? They’re the good guys of the ocean. And yet for all we think we know about them, we really don’t understand them at all. Dolphins will gang-rape females for days on end. Rival males will kill newborns to bring a female back in heat. As playful as they seem in a dolphin show, as intelligent as they appear, they’re not people, and we shouldn’t treat them as such. Our morals, our values simply do not apply to them.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia

“In Africa, we have a saying,” Alile said. “To get lost is to learn the way.”
― Peter Cawdron, Xenophobia