If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours? - Octavia E. Butler

I didn't want to scare you. We don't want to scare anyone."
"No? Well, sometimes it's a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.

Who knows what we humans have that others might be willing to take in trade for a livable space on a world not our own.

It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them.