Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week

"Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque. It will have been at least a lesson - a lesson at last to be learned."
-The Outer Limits (closing voice-over narration), "The Architects of Fear," September 30th, 1963.

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