134 Quotes by Gene Roddenberry

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable – and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another’s privacy had become a powerful tradition.

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov’s astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge – Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T’hy’la!

In a better world, I can do anything. I’ll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we’ll move out of it. Gene Roddenberry.

Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry.

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn’t agree with.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, “What is it all about?”

I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, ‘thou shalt not,’ or ‘thou shalt.’ I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that.

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.