„What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.“

„Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.“

—  Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Fonte: The Complete Essays

„Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. Looked at from one side, the wall enclosed a barren sixty-acre field called the Port of Anarres. […] It was in fact a quarantine. The wall shut in not only the landing field but also the ships that came down out of space, and the men that came on the ships, and the worlds they came from, and the rest of the universe. It enclosed the universe, leaving Anarres outside, free. Looked at from the other side, the wall enclosed Anarres: the whole planet was inside it, a great prison camp, cut off from other worlds and other men, in quarantine.“

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle

Fonte: Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed (1974), Chapter 1 (pp. 1–2)

„If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.“

—  David Walsh Irish sports journalist 1955

„But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.“

—  Jenny Offill, livro Dept. of Speculation

Fonte: Dept. of Speculation

„If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That’s what I’m exploring.“

—  Gregory Colbert Canadian photographer 1960

"Peerless on the Pier" in Town & Country (March 2005) http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-131688118/peerless-pier-arts-culture.html

„You Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.“

—  Luke the Evangelist, Gospel of Luke

11:39-41 NIV
Gospel of Luke

„I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people… that shadow land between self and reality.“

—  Mark Strand Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator 1934 - 2014

Paris Review Interview (1998)

„There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.“

—  Yann Martel, livro Life of Pi

Fonte: Life of Pi

„Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.“

—  Douglas Adams, livro So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Fonte: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

„There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside"

-Hanna“

—  Sara Shepard Author 1973

Fonte: Unbelievable

„And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

„Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?“

—  John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992

"Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures, John Cage gave in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence.
1950s

„They (the Greens) are a home for people who in the 1950s would have joined the Communist Party. They are watermelons many of them - green on the outside and very, very, very red on the inside.“

—  John Anderson (Australian politician) Australian politician, 11th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia 1956

Anderson sees red over 'watermelon' Greens, theage.com.au, Max Blenkin, September 7, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/06/1094322715096.html,

„I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Fonte: Infinity

„…a clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries — I guess you'd call them colonialists — and they pitted one group of people against another.“

—  George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Press Availability with President Kagame of Rwanda (February 19, 2008) http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080219-6.html http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/bush-outside-forces-tend-to-divide-people-up
2000s, 2008

„The core of the Syrian tragedy consists of the fact that Assad and ISIS represent the two faces of the same coin. Both want the Syrian people, or what is left of them inside the country, scripted out of the equation. Both have enough of a popular base to hang on for some more time even if they did not receive succor from the outside which they regularly do. At the same time neither is strong enough or is ever likely to have the popular base to impose its agenda on Syria.“

—  Amir Taheri Iranian journalist 1942

Opinion: The Syrian Orphan and a Club of Cynics http://english.aawsat.com/2015/09/article55345155/opinion-the-syrian-orphan-and-a-club-of-cynics, Ashraq Al-Awsat (18 Sep, 2015).

„I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald American novelist and screenwriter 1896 - 1940

„If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.“

—  Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958

„Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.… I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.“

—  Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942 - 2011

The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)