| Ash: | You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. |
| Lambert: | You admire it. |
| Ash: | I admire its purity. A survivor … unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. |
| Parker: | Look, I am … I’ve heard enough of this, and I’m asking you to pull the plug. |
| [Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts] | |
| Ash: | Last word. |
| Ripley: | What? |
| Ash: | I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies. |
| ― “Alien” (1979) | |
| Det. ‘George’ Francisco: | You humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we’ve never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all the more painful and confusing to us that so few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves. |
| ― “Alien Nation” (1988) | |
The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.
― Karl Marx on Alienation, “Economic Manuscripts” (1844)
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