Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

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

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.