Enemy Aliens

Famous quotes containing the words enemy and/or aliens:

    “With drums and guns, and guns and drums
    The enemy nearly slew ye,
    My darling dear, you look so queer,
    Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!”
    —Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.)

    “The fact that illness is associated with the poor—who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one’s midst—reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)