Control Voice quotes from The Outer Limits (1995)

[opening narration] Our children need protecting from much more than physical harm. Just as threatening to the fragile child are the dangers of the mind... and the dangers of the heart.

[closing narration] Let us hope that no technology will ever exist that can replace human warmth and compassion. For when such a technology does exist, will we cease to be human?

[opening narration] They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But what of the man who possesses too much knowledge?

[closing narration] If knowledge is power and power corrupts... how will humankind ever survive?

[opening narration] Evolution teaches that the failure of a species to adapt will result in extinction. But could an entire gender fall victim to the same immutable loss?

[closing narration] The differences between men and women have been debated among philosophers since recorded history began. If indeed males are, by their nature, the aggressor, it is this quality that may one day be their undoing.

[opening narration] It was once written: "To thine own self, be true". But how do we know who we really are?

[closing narration] Every man must confront the monster within himself... if he is ever to find peace... without.

[opening narration] Humans are driven to explore their history, to rediscover forgotten lives and times. For deep down we have always known that our past... is often prologue.

[closing narration] They say what you send around comes around. Perhaps, that is true, even if it sometimes takes... a thousand years.

[opening narration] While some prisoners of war show bravery beyond the call of duty, others succumb to an enemy often more formidable than the one which captured them.

[closing narration] In our efforts to plumb the depths of our psychological endurance we may do more than drive ourselves to the breaking point... we may destroy the very world we're seeking to protect.

[opening narration] Our most powerful instinct is self-preservation. But what happens when fear and mistrust twist that drive into a force more destructive than any outside enemy?

[closing narration] It is one of the great mysteries of existence how the smallest drop of understanding can cleanse a sea of mistrust and hate.

[opening narration] It is perhaps the central paradox of our existence... to be alive is to be aware of our mortality. Life is, by definition, a terminal disease.