On the Romulan Empire:
"...any system which fears new ideas as this one does is destined to self-destruct.
"New ideas are essential to growth. And growth is essential to the survival of any being or system. Not the sort of growth that the Empire pursues, with conquest after conquest, and world after subjugated world---but the growth of the spirit."
"...any system which fears new ideas as this one does is destined to self-destruct.
"New ideas are essential to growth. And growth is essential to the survival of any being or system. Not the sort of growth that the Empire pursues, with conquest after conquest, and world after subjugated world---but the growth of the spirit."
-from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Crossover by Michael Jan Friedman
