Quotes from Christopher L. Bennett

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

That is the past. It has already occurred. Its only existence now is as a source of wisdom and motivation. Learn from your pain, your guilt toward your past actions. Let it guide your choices in the future.

Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

life is about living, not just surviving. Nobody gets out of it alive in the end, so we just have to make the most of the time we get.

The Gum Nebula was one of the largest astronomical landmarks in the Orion Arm. It was a gigantic supernova remnant, a shock front from the death of a star over a million years in the past.

Exactly," T'Pol said. "Surak wrote of this in the Kir'Shara. 'Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.

Are we solving a problem, or manufacturing a problem to fit our solution?

Agent Shelan wondered if it would really hurt diplomatic relations with the Klingon Empire all that much if she tossed Korath, Son of Monak, into an antimatter reactor. Surely if anyone would recognize homicide as a valid response to intolerable annoyance, it would be the Klingons.

He smiled more warmly and clasped her hand. "Kirk," he said. "Samuel Abraham Kirk.

So how do you preserve such freedom," Zehron countered, "if the state itself coerces the people to follow its rules?

Rather," Soval replied, "the people mutually consent to abide by those rules for their own collective benefit. They ensure their own safety and liberty by agreeing to respect others' safety and liberty—even when that requires making compromises. Absolute, unfettered freedom is only possible for one who lives absolutely alone. When one is part of a community, one must balance one's own freedoms and rights with those of others.

There are constraints on freedom, but only to the extent that different individuals' freedoms come into conflict. It is the responsibility of the state to moderate those conflicts equitably.

Or, as a famous human jurist once said, 'The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins,' " Archer added.

The past anchors us, cousin. It gives us a place to stand. You can't hide from it because it hurts. That pain tells you who you are. It demands recognition.

It's the ones who don't blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing.

A life without truth is illogical. Surak wrote that the truth is simply the actual state of the universe. To live at odds with the truth is to be in conflict with reality itself. Such an existence is unsustainable.

those roots were made for walking. And that's not all they do.

You could always go back to school," Louise said. "You're never too old to learn." "But there's just so much. Not just this world, but so many others. By the time I got caught up, I would be too old." "To spend the rest of your life learning?" Louise asked, shaking her head in wonderment. "What could be better than that?" Such a twenty-fourth-century attitude, Clare thought.

Our dead deserve to be honored, Phlox." "But do we really honor them by using them as an excuse to add to their numbers?

Sometimes, Thanien, you simply have to stop letting the past define your life and live for the future instead.

The only thing our choices can affect or change is the future. So it seems to me that the future is where our attention can be most usefully directed.

Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.