Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back Quotes

“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Cats, on the other hand, are similar to Vulcans—dispassionate, contemplative and pointy-eared.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“If Grumpy Cat could bring herself to actually support something, it should be a no-brainer for mere humans.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“As my father once explained to me, our “rights” are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people’s democracy here in America, as great as the people of this country can be, but also as fallible, we must stay ever vigilant in the face of any “tyranny” of the majority, no matter the stated objective.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“In fact, I’ve heard that on the Death Star there are over 100 Starbucks franchises, sometimes one just on the other side of a blast door from another. May the froth be with you:”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Indeed, the pun is considered by many to be more distasteful than the common expletive. You might even say the pun is mightier than the s-word.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“IMHO, we groan at puns because we sense, deep in our souls, that there has been some egregious violation of the rules forbidding the base exploitation of language. Indeed, the pun is considered by many to be more distasteful than the common expletive. You might even say the pun is mightier than the s-word.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because “funny” material is much more likely to be shared (and thus seen), but also because I firmly believe we all, conservative or liberal, need to laugh more, even at ourselves, and even while standing up for our beliefs.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“So I did what any deeply burdened American would do: I took to my blog and bitched about it.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“But it is America that has taken FWPs to a whole new level. It is only when such great material wealth combines with stunning spiritual poverty, reaching not only the upper classes but across once-aspirational middle and now even lower classes, that the true obnoxiousness of the FWP is evident. The art of the whine has never been more perfected.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“I call this phenomenon “hipsterization”—when those who fancy themselves on the cutting edge dismiss the very items they had touted as cool until they become adored by the suburban mommy crowd.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we’re not alone in our inner panic.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“But as Stephen Fry has so eloquently noted, all great atrocities and genocides first begin with marginalizing then dehumanizing a specific group of people, whether Jewish, Gypsy or Rwandan.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“(Or perhaps Siri’s programmers included parents who anticipated their children’s unauthorized use of their mobile devices—trust me, a four year old can use an iPhone better than most adults):”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“I imagine sarcasm to be a backward slanting font, each word leaning away from rather than into the next. These days it is getting harder and harder to tell reality from distortion, truth from satire, especially on the Internet.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“(and yes, the rich are never crazy, they’re eccentric),”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back

“And anyway, as they will say in the distant future, “Replication is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― George Takei, Lions and Tigers and Bears - The Internet Strikes Back