MACBETH: How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!

— Macbeth, IV, i

“I feel disoriented.”

“This is the Disorientation Centre.”

“That makes sense.”

— The Doctor and Sarah, in “The Android Invasion”

We're all basically primeval slime with ideas above its station.

— The Doctor, in “Full Circle”

MACBETH: We have scorched the snake, not killed it:

She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice

Remains in danger of her former tooth.

— Macbeth, III, ii

PROSPERO: My Ariel, chick,

That is thy charge: then to the elements

Be free, and fare thou well!

— The Tempest, V, i

“But I don't *exist* in your world!”

“Then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you.”

— The Doctor and the Brigade Leader, in “Inferno”

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In dictatorships there can be no party divisions. For all men must think as they are told, speak as they are told, write as they are told, live — and die — as they are told. In those countries the Nation is not above the party, as with us; the party is above the Nation; the party is the Nation. Every common man and woman is forced to walk the straight and narrow path of the party line, not strictly speaking a party line, but rather a line drawn by the dictator himself, who owns the party.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

A quotation from Mark Twain

There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Following the Equator, ch. 21 (1897)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/twain-mark/3920/

MACBETH: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,

Without my stir.

— Macbeth, I, iii

A quotation from Banksy

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, Introduction (2005)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/76224/

“Traken Union, famous for its harmony. A whole empire held together by... by people being terribly nice to each other.”

“Well, that makes a change.”

— The Doctor and Adric, in “The Keeper of Traken”

GLOUCESTER: 'Tis the time's plague, when madmen lead the blind.

— King Lear, IV, i

But what if it's really funny?

Anyway, Mr. Fitzgerald would have hated texting me.

“As far as we know, the sea was calm and empty.”

“It may be calm, but it's never empty.”

— Huckle and the Doctor, in “Terror of the Zygons”

HAMLET: How all occasions do inform against me,

And spur my dull revenge!

— Hamlet, IV, iv

“Are you trying to tell me you're in love?”

“Love? What is 'love'? I want *existence*.”

— Tegan and Marriner, in “Enlightenment”

“I don't know what to believe any more.”

“Well, that sounds healthy, anyway. Never be certain of anything; it's a sign of weakness.”

— Leela and the Doctor, in “The Face of Evil”

FLAVIUS: I bleed inwardly for my lord.

— Timon of Athens, I, ii

PROSPERO: The charm dissolves apace,

And as the morning steals upon the night,

Melting the darkness, so their rising senses

Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle

Their clearer reason.

— The Tempest, V, i

You know, the worse the situation the worse your jokes get.

— Sarah, in “The Masque of Mandragora”