Babylon 5 Quotes and Quotation

Season 2

• "I'll tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd've stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea... I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated." - Captain

• "May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk" - Captain quoting an ancient Egyptian blessing

• "So you feel like you're being symbolically cast— in a bad light." - Commander , replying to Ambassador 's complaint about a doll of him having no "attributes"

• Elric: "I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds, the sounds of billions of people calling your name..."
  Londo: "My followers?"
  Elric: "Your victims."
  - Ambassador 's exchange with Elric the

• "So much has been lost, so much forgotten. So much pain, so much blood. And for what, I wonder. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible inbetween. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. To choose something better, to make a difference, as you say." - Emperor Turhan of the Centauri, "The Coming of Shadows"

• "I apologize. I'm… sorry. [pause] I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell. [pause] As with everything else, it's the thought that counts." - Captain , practicing his mandatory public apology to the Centauri government, "The Fall of Night"

Season 3

• "I don't want to get killed because of a typo. It would be embarrassing." - Commander , "A Day in the Strife"

• "Good luck, captain. I think you're about to go where… everyone has gone before." - Commander , holographically observing Sheridan being seduced by an EarthGov representative, "Voices of Authority"

• Delenn: This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection, withdraw or be destroyed!
  Captain: Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.
  Delenn: Why not?! Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
  - Ambassador , "Severed Dreams"

• "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts." - Ambassador of the Centauri, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

• Lord Refa: Why should I do as you say?
  Londo: Because I have asked you; because your sense of duty to our people should override any personal ambition; and because I have poisoned your drink.
  - Ambassador of the Centauri wins over Lord Refa of the Centauri, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

• "Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This… is wrong tool." - Zathras, "War Without End, Part Two"

• "He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest that he intends to go far beyond harsh language." - , "Grey 17 is Missing"

• "I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One." - , "Grey 17 is Missing"

• "You know, before I got married, Emily used to come by sometimes and help me clean out my apartment. Well, I asked her, 'How come you're so eager to help clean up my place when your place is just as bad?' She said, 'Because cleaning up your place helps me to forget what a mess I've made of mine. And — when I sweep my floor, all I've done is sweep my floor. But, when I help you clean up your place, I am helping you.'" - Reverend Will Dexter to Captain , "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"

• "Love, Love, Overrated." -

• "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - to , "A Late Delivery from Avalon"

• "It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. It was as if the universe were holding its breath... waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments... of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G'Quan wrote: "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born... in pain." - Ambassador , "Z'ha'dum"

Season 4

• "Our thoughts form the universe. They always matter." - , "The Hour of the Wolf"

• "I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other." - , "Epiphanies"

• "This is a conversation that can only end with a gunshot." - to , "Atonement"

• "Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposes me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required." - , "Rumors, Bargains and Lies"

• "Being a freedom fighter, a force for good, its a wonderful thing...you get to make your own hours, looks good on a resume, but the pay...sucks." - ''Bester, "Moments of Transition"

• "You will cooperate with the state, for the good of the state and your own survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded." - Recording from "Intersections in Real Time"

• [Garibaldi et al confront a man guarding the captive Sheridan.]
  : "We understand you've got Sheridan in there. I'm the one who turned him in. Maybe you saw me on ISN."
  Guard: [in a monotone] "I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite."
  - "Between the Darkness and the Light"

• "Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me." - Commander , "Between the Darkness and the Light"

• "All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it." - Commander to after the death of , "Rising Star"

• "It was the end of the Earth year 2261, and it was the dawn of a new age... for all of us. It was end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. The next twenty years would see great changes, great joy, and great sorrow. The Telepath War, and the Drakh War. The new Alliance would waver, and crack... but in the end, it would hold. Because what is built endures, and what is loved endures... and Babylon 5... Babylon 5 endures." - , "Rising Star"

Season 5

• "… the only way to get pertinent information is by asking impertinent questions." - Ranger Findell, relating Whitestar Captain Montoya's philosophy
• "There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are. It takes only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame." - Entil'zha
• "To Absent Friends - In memory still bright" - Former IA President
• "Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future... and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others would do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most... unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope - that there can always be new beginnings... even for people like us." - Susan Ivanova, "Sleeping in Light"

Movies

• "If dreams do come true, what of our nightmares?" - Galen, "Babylon 5: A Call to Arms"

Books

• While walking through the capitol city, the newly invested Emperor was struck by a rock thrown by a young teenage girl, who proceeded to upbraid him for his failings in defence of the Centauri people.
  Londo: "...You are quite brave, do you know that?" For a moment the girl seemed taken aback, and then she gathered herself. "I'm not brave. I'm just too tired and hungry and angry to care anymore."
  Londo: "Perhaps they are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps bravery is simply apathy with delusions of grandeur." - Legions of Fire - The Long Night of Centauri Prime, by Peter David

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