In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
-- Emma Goldman
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“I don’t want to die now! I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!”
The complete transformation of everyone's living conditions can never be achieved on the path of slow development, through which at most improvements within a social system are possible.
-- Erich Muhsam
The sign said:
Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion.
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a packet of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
What do you want? You don't want to take over the universe, do you? No... you wouldn't know what to do with it, beyond shout at it.
— The Doctor, in “The Pirate Planet”
Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Do you feel like arguing with a can of deodorant that registers 9 on the Richter Scale?
— Ace, in “Dragonfire”
Happy Birthday to Fred Tatasciore. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fred_Tatasciore #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrekProdigy #StarTrekFilm #IDIC #Quote
"Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. It's death." Dr. Soran- Star Trek Generations, Stardate: 48650.1 #StarTrek #StarTrekFilm #IDIC #Quote
Happy Birthday to Malcolm McDowell. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell #StarTrek #StarTrekFilm #IDIC #Quote
“Well, since we're insulting each other, I can't say I care much for your taste in clothes; doesn't do a *thing* for you.”
“Your regeneration's not too attractive, either. But at least I can change my appearance; you're stuck with what you've got.”
— The Doctor and the Rani, in “Mark of the Rani”
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.
-- Malcolm X