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Machinery:

Man is ultimately superior to any mechanical device. - Kirk - The Corbomite Maneuver (TOS)

I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! - Samuel T. Cogley - Court Martial (TOS)

Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousand fold. - Khan - Space Seed (TOS)

I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins. - Spock - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

There are certain universal ideas and concepts common to all intelligent life. This [universal translator] instantaneously compares the frequency of brain wave patterns, selects those ideas and concepts it recognizes, and then provides the necessary grammar. Then it simply translates its findings into English. - Kirk and Spock - Metamorphosis (TOS)

We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. But when it comes to your job - that's different. And it always will be different. - McCoy - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

Compassion, that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. - McCoy - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

Madness:

Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal. - Spock - The Alternative Factor (TOS)

He is mad…or I am. It depends on your point of view. - Lazarus - The Alternative Factor (TOS)

Male:

Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and it's still the same song. - Eve McHuron - Mudd's Women (TOS)

The idea of male and female are universal. - Kirk - Metamorphosis (TOS)

Women are more easily and more deeply terrified…generating more sheer horror than the male of the species. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Man:

There's only one kind of woman or man. You either believe in yourself or you don't. - Kirk - Mudd's Women (TOS)

Men will always be men - no matter where they are. - Mudd - Mudd's Women (TOS)

Behind every great man, there is a woman - urging him on. - Mudd - I, Mudd (TOS)

You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. - McCoy - I, Mudd (TOS)

The most cooperative man in this world is a dead man. - Bela Oxmyx - A Piece of the Action (TOS)

There are certain things men must do to remain men. - Kirk - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

Is not that the nature of man and woman? That the pleasure is in the learning of each other? - Natira - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

The man is the center of all things. - Companion - Metamorphosis (TOS)

Mathematics:

As we know, the value of pi is a transcendental figure without resolution. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Medicine:

Blast medicine anyway! We've learned to tie into every organ in the human body but one. The brain! The brain is what life is all about. - McCoy - The Menagerie (TOS) 

In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of play. - McCoy - The Conscience of the King (TOS)

Yet you are pumping him full of your noxious potions, as if he were a human. - Spock - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS)

We found [Capellans] totally uninterested in medical aid or hospitals. They believe that only the strong should survive. - McCoy - Friday's Child (TOS)

I will never understand the medical mind. - Spock - Miri (TOS)

Memory:

When a man feels guilty about something, something too terrible to remember, he blots it out of his conscious memory. - McCoy - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Mercy:

Sparing your helpless enemy who surely would have destroyed you, you demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy, something we hardly expected. We feel that there may be hope for [humanity]. Therefore you will not be destroyed. It would not be civilized. - Metron - Arena (TOS)

Military:

Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. - Spock - The Enterprise Incident (TOS)

Mind:

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. - Kirk - Shore Leave (TOS)

Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. - Spock - Operation: Annihilate! (TOS)

You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed. One gains admittance to your minds through many levels. You have too many to keep track of yourselves. There are unguarded entrances to any human mind. - Sylvia - Catspaw (TOS)

The semi-conscious mind is a tricky thing. A man never knows just how much is real or how much is imagination. - McCoy - Obsession (TOS)

You have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine…the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence! And his positive side, which…people express as compassion, love, tenderness! - Spock - The Enemy Within (TOS)

There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face…. One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods. - Sargon - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

Mistakes:

If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. - Kirk - Space Seed (TOS)

We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human - and maybe that's the word that best explains us. - Kirk - I, Mudd (TOS)

Even historians fail to learn from history-they repeat the same mistakes. - John Gill - Patterns of Force (TOS)

Money:

I think that one day they're going to take all this money that we spend now on war and death…. And make them spend it on life. - Edith Keeler and Kirk - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

Monster:

Monsters come in many forms. And do you know the greatest monster of them all? Guilt. - McCoy - Obsession (TOS)

Murder:

Jealousy has often been a motive for murder. - Kirk - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

…motivations of passion or gain - those are reasons for murder. - Shras - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God. - M-5 - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

To us, killing is murder, even for revenge. - Kirk - Plato's Stepchildren (TOS)

Mythology:

Even for a god there's a point of no return. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

The time is past. There is no room for gods. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

We're immortal, we gods. The Earth changed. Your fathers changed. They turned away, until we were only memories. A god cannot survive as a memory. We need love, admiration, worship, as you need food. - Apollo - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

Most mythology has its basis in fact. - Kirk - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

Mankind has no need for gods. We find the One quite adequate. - Kirk - Who Mourns for Adonais? (TOS)

Behold, the god who bleeds! - Salish - The Paradise Syndrome (TOS)

Many myths are based on truth. - Spock - The Way to Eden (TOS)

Negotiation:

Negotiating…will be time-consuming…. And time is the one thing we'll have the least of. - Spock - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

You do not like to be pushed. Very good. You may be a man I can deal with…. - Kor - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

Oblivion:

Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved. - Thalassa - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

Obsession:

There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend. Obsession, for one. The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea. - Spock - Obsession (TOS)

Offense:

The best defense is a strong offense. And I intend to start offending right now! - Kirk - The Empath (TOS)

Pain:

Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure. - Kirk - The Alternative Factor (TOS)

Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. - Spock - Operation: Annihilate! (TOS)

Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose - and excluding that which is painful. - Spock - And the Children Shall Lead (TOS)

It is like…when you see that the people have no hope for happiness…you feel great despair…your heart is heavy because you know you can do nothing…pain is like that. - Odona - The Mark of Gideon (TOS)

Paradise:

Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through... struggle, claw our way up…scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of lutes. We must march to the sound of drums. - Kirk - This Side of Paradise (TOS)

Parents:

Parents like stupid things. - Don - And the Children Shall Lead (TOS)

Peace:

Our missions are peaceful - not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice. - Kirk - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

Peace was the way. - Kirk - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

…Vulcans believe peace should not depend on force. - Amanda - Journey to Babel (TOS)

Vulcans worship peace above all. - McCoy - Return to Tomorrow (TOS)

Our way is peace. - Septimus - Bread and Circuses (TOS)

We fight only when there is no other choice. We prefer the ways of peaceful contact. - Kirk - Spectre of the Gun (TOS)

No one talks peace unless he's ready to back it up with war. He talks of peace if it is the only way to live. - Colonel Green and Surak - The Savage Curtain (TOS)

Men of peace usually are [brave]. - Spock - The Savage Curtain (TOS)

People:

All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

We're free people. We belong to no one. - Kirk - The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS)

Look at these three words written larger than all the rest, and with a special pride never written before or since - tall words, proudly saying, 'We the people'…these words and the words that follow…must apply to everyone or they mean nothing. - Kirk - The Omega Glory (TOS)

Persecution:

You're from the planet Earth. There is no persecution on your planet. There was persecution on Earth once; I remember reading about it in my history class. - Lokai and Chekov - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS)

Personality:

When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous. - McCoy - The Lights of Zetar (TOS)

Pi:

As we know, the value of pi is a transcendental figure without resolution. - Spock - Wolf in the Fold (TOS)

Play:

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. - Kirk - Shore Leave (TOS)

Playthings:

We are living beings, not playthings. - Kirk - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

Pleasant:

Be pleasant no matter how much it hurts. - Kirk - Elaan of Troyius (TOS)

Pleasure:

Sometimes pain can drive a man harder than pleasure. - Kirk - The Alternative Factor (TOS)

Is not that the nature of man and woman? That the pleasure is in the learning of each other? - Natira - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (TOS)

To be human is also to seek pleasure. To laugh - to dance. - Flint - Requiem for Methuselah (TOS)

Possession:

There's a million things in this universe you can have and a million things you can't. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are. - Kirk - Charlie X (TOS)

There are some things worth dying for. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. - Spock - Amok Time (TOS)

Power:

Power is danger. - Centurion - Balance of Terror (TOS)

I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose. - Spock - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe. It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong. - Kirk - Errand of Mercy (TOS)

Less than one ounce of anti-matter here is more powerful than ten thousand cobalt bombs. Let's hope it's as powerful as man will ever get. - Ensign Garrovick and Kirk- Obsession (TOS)

The only solution is…a balance of power. We arm our side exactly that much more. A balance of power - the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides. - Kirk - A Private Little War (TOS)

The problem with the Nazis wasn't simply that their leaders were evil, psychotic men. They were. But the main problem, I think, was the leader principle. A man who holds that much power, even with the best intentions, just can't resist the urge to play god. - Kirk and McCoy- Patterns of Force (TOS)

Earthmen like Ramses, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan. Your whole Earth history is made up of men seeking absolute power. - Spock - Patterns of Force (TOS)

Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth. Or by misleading the innocent. - Spock and McCoy - And the Children Shall Lead (TOS)

Uncontrolled, power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses. - Parmen - Plato's Stepchildren (TOS)

Predator:

Do you know that [humans are] one of the few predator species that preys even on itself? - Trelane - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

[Humans are] a most promising species…as predators go. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we'll be able to prove it. - Kirk - Arena (TOS)

Prejudice:

Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge. - Kirk - Balance of Terror (TOS)

Most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness - one of the last of our prejudices. - Kirk - Is There in Truth No Beauty? (TOS)

It's been my experience that the prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other. - Kirk - Elaan of Troyius (TOS)

Preparation:

Prepare for tomorrow - get ready. - Edith Keeler - The City on the Edge of Forever (TOS)

Pressure:

No one knows how he'll act under pressure. - Sulu - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (TOS)

Pride:

I am proud of what I am. I believe in what I do. - Chekov - The Way to Eden (TOS)

Prime Directive:

A…captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive. - Kirk - The Omega Glory (TOS)

Problem:

No problem is insoluble. - Dr. Janet Wallace - The Deadly Years (TOS)

Progress:

Only a fool would stand in the way of progress. - Kirk - The Ultimate Computer (TOS)

Punishment:

Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become insensitive. - Eneg - Patterns of Force (TOS)

Purpose:

I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose. - Spock - The Squire of Gothos (TOS)

It is necessary to have a purpose. - Alice #1 - I, Mudd (TOS)

Believe me, there's nothing tougher to overcome [than a sense of purpose], even among humans. - McCoy - I, Mudd (TOS)