All Quotes

"Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind."

"Je ne vois qu'ininfi par toutes les fenêtres. — Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal."

"A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work."

"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”"

"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."

"Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual. There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to them will finally set him free."

"Resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal."

"We must remember: what is beautiful is the resistance, and that people can-and must-resist from their own authentic place in the world…It is from this solid, self-knowing place that we can work towards peace and justice"

"What has submitted will exhibit resistance."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

"Blinded by their own racial theories and driven by the increasing demands of the war to extract whatever they could from occupied territories, the Axis powers in both Europe and Asia drove civilians into active opposition. Forced labour, punitive taxes, indiscriminate killing and deliberate genocide gave people a stark choice of resisting or probably dying in any case. As armed resistance grew across Asia, from the Philippines to China, and throughout Europe, the Axis powers cracked down ever more severely, the Japanese with such policies as the Three Alls in China and the Nazis with collective punishment for any locality where there were resistance activities. As one German diplomat in occupied Greece said after German forces massacred Greek villagers, ‘The wonderful result of this heroic deed is that babies are dead; but the partisans continue to live.’ Ukrainians who had welcomed Nazi troops with the traditional gifts of salt and bread as their deliverers from Soviet rule formed partisan groups as the Nazis started their killings and mass deportations of slave labour to the West."

"Resistance in the Second World War was picking up a gun or blowing up railways, but it was also listening to the nightly news bulletins on the BBC, as thousands did all over Europe even though that was punishable by death. Resistance was also printing and distributing information about the occupations and the state of the war. In Belgium around 12,000 people were engaged in putting out and distributing some 300 underground papers. In occupied France audiences clapped British soldiers when they appeared in newsreels and moved if a German sat next to them. In Poland a German officer complained that Polish children were always rude to him. In occupied Denmark citizens gathered in large numbers in the open air to sing Danish folksongs. The Dutch planted flowerbeds in their national colours. The streets in Prague were empty on the anniversaries of the Munich Agreement, which had destroyed Czechoslovakia. Such gestures may have seemed futile but they helped to keep hope alive."

":Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander."

"Make it so."

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too."

"It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence."

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."

"Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."

"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."

"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

"Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you, just in the way you wanted. An equal. Let Data go and I will take my place at your side, willingly without any resistance."

"Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home, Locutus. Data, you are free to go."

"Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, lay in a course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for us."

"Lieutenant Commander Data: Course laid in, sir."

"Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so."

"How many people does it take, admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people DOES IT TAKE, admiral?'"

"Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait."

"If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united."

"[voiceover] Captain's Personal Log. The crew has responded with the dedication I've come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn."

"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be."

"Never, never! You still have a choice. Make the right one now."

"I came here to finde safety. But one is never safe from the past."

"The past is written, but we are left to write the future."

"Let's see what this galaxy class starship can do."

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."

"Let's see what's out there. Engage."

"Sometimes, Riker, the best way to win a fight is not to be there."

"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

":[Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]"

":William Riker: Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it."

":Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. Enterprise, lock on. Beam me home, Riker."

"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. „What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!“"

"Things are only impossible until they're not!"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself."

":Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?"

":Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think."

"The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous."

"You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you."

"The challenge, Mister Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it."