You Can Panic Now/Quotes

Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see--germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion--a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages. Everything is going to hell, and we must all live in fear. Amazing.

—State of Fear

It is my professional opinion that now is the time to panic!

—Child expert, Monsters, Inc.

Very few SCIENTISTS BELIEVE AIDS MAY or may not HAVE MUTATED INTO AN AIRBORNE VIRUS!!! HOLDing YOUR BREATH is not necessary!

—Candorville

KRYTEN: There is no need to engage your panic chip, sir. The machine can only operate on organic life. I am mineral, and therefore immune.
COMPUTER: New genetic structure accepted. Metamorphosis in ten seconds and counting.

KRYTEN: Oh. Wait a minute. No. My brain is part organic and therefore it is entirely possible for the machine to transmogrify my physical condition. Engage panic circuits. Panic circuits engaged. Bwa-ha!

—Red Dwarf, "DNA"

Kent Brockman: "So, Mr. Expert, would you say it's time for us to panic?"

Expert: "Yes I would, Kent."

—The Simpsons

Hermes: "Professor, sprinkle us with wisdom from your mighty brain. How scared should we be?"
Professor: "Somewhere between not at all and entirely."

Zoidberg: "I call entirely!"

—Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs