Gene Roddenberry quotes

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. (Gene Roddenberry)
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? View quote
Gene Roddenberry
No one could know Serling, or view or read his work, without recognizing his deep affection for humanity, his sympathetically enthusiastic curiosity about us, and his determination to enlarge our horizons by giving us a better understanding of ourselves. He dreamed of much for us, and demanded much of himself, perhaps more than was possible for either in this time and place. But it is that quality of dreams and demands that makes the ones like Rod Serling rare ...and always irreplaceable. View quote
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Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. (Gene Roddenberry)
I listened to the sermon, and I remember complete astonishment because what they were talking about were things that were just crazy. It was communion time, where you eat this wafer and are supposed to be eating the body of Christ and drinking his blood. My first impression was, "This is a bunch of cannibals they've put me down among!" For some time, I puzzled over this and puzzled over why they were saying these things, because the connection between what they were saying and reality was very tenuous. How the hell did Jesus become something to be eaten? I guess from that time it was clear to me that religion was largely nonsense--largely magical, superstitious things. In my own teen life, I just couldn't see any point in adopting something based on magic, which was obviously phony and superstitious. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
I think I've gone through quite an ordinary series of steps in life. I began as most children began, with God and Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny all being about the same thing. Then I went through the things that I think sensitive people go through, wrestling with the thoughts of Jesus-did he shit? Did he screw? I began to dare to believe that God wasn't some white beard. I began to look upon the miseries of the human race and to think God was not as simple as my mother said. As nearly as I can concentrate on the question today, I believe I am God; certainly you are, I think we intelligent beings on this planet are all a piece of God, are becoming God. In some sort of cyclical non-time thing we have to become God, so that we can end up creating ourselves, so that we can be in the first place. ... My own feeling is that relation to God as a person is a petty, superstitious approach to the All, the infinite. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons... God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe. (Gene Roddenberry)
I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless things, but rather have a great importance and significance. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Time is the fire in which we burn. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it. View quote
Gene Roddenberry