There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it’s just a matter of finding it. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Attached’.
Things are only impossible until they’re not! – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Ensigns of Command’.
We think we’ve come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.
A matter of internal security: the age-old cry of the oppressor. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Hunted’.
Seize the time…Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Inner Light’.
The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools, openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Broken Pieces’.
Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all…we’re only mortal. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek Generations (1994 Film).
There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Justice’.
I’m not in the habit of consulting lawyers before I do what needs to be done. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘The End is the Beginning’.
Murder is not justice. There is no solace in revenge. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Stardust City Rag’.
The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: First Contact (1996 Film).
To be alive is a responsibility as well as a right. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.
You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Man of the People’.
The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.
The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: First Contact (1996 Film).
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Offspring’.
I’d be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I’ll let you know. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘In Theory’.
There’s still much to do; still so much to learn. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Neutral Zone’.
If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Encounter At Farpoint’.
Being first at any cost is not always the point. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Tin Man’.
Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Chain of Command, Part 2’.
Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off. Is that clear? – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Announcing he has terminal brain condition. Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1’.
No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Tapestry’.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Peak Performance’.
There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Tapestry’.
Fear is an incompetent teacher. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’.
Buried deep within you…is the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Nemesis (2002 Film).
The only person you’re truly competing against…is yourself. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Coming of Age’.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before! – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Opening narration, Star Trek: The Next Generation, introduction to each episode.
