The Outer Limits (1995) Season 1 quotes

[opening narration] Our history abounds with the exploits of heroes who brave overwhelming odds and live to tell the tale. But is there a point at which the determination to survive... comes at too high a price?

[closing narration] It is nature's imperative that the differences among us endure. But what if we can no longer distinguish one being from another?

[opening narration] It has been said that for the truth to exist it takes two people... one to speak it and another to hear it.

[closing narration] Mankind will be forever doomed to destruction, if we continue to ask for the truth but then... refuse to listen.

[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?

I mean, haven't you ever wondered why there isn't any intelligent life in the universe?

Excuse me?

Oh, come on, Martin, all those years listening to the stars and not a peep? No I Love Lucy with two-headed green guys playing both Lucy and Ricky? No radio signals at all, you know why?

No, I don't.

Because they get to this point, where you and I are today, and they discover the energy weapon that any child can build, and then they destroy themselves.

I can't accept that, I don't believe you can either.

Before this day's over, you will.

[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.