Babylon 5 Quotes
[Threatened by the Mars Resistance, Garibaldi begs Lyta to force her way past his memory blocks.]
Lyta Alexander: Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.
Michael Garibaldi: And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.
. . .
[after she breaks the blocks and sees Garibaldi's memories]
Lyta: It's true. What he told us, it's all true.
Number One: Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want–
Lyta: What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?
[she telepathically projects Garibaldi's memories into Number One]
Number One: [recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!
Lyta Alexander: Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.
Michael Garibaldi: And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.
. . .
[after she breaks the blocks and sees Garibaldi's memories]
Lyta: It's true. What he told us, it's all true.
Number One: Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want–
Lyta: What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?
[she telepathically projects Garibaldi's memories into Number One]
Number One: [recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!
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Garibaldi: Okay, who gulped? Somebody gulped. We have got a long way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp.
Franklin: I didn't gulp.
Lyta: I sipped.
Garibaldi: [to Lyta] You I believe.
Franklin: [chagrined] What? Why do you believe her and not me?
Garibaldi: Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a better liar than you are.
Lyta: Thank you. [pause] Wait a minute! [...] What do you mean I'm a good liar?
Franklin: I didn't gulp.
Lyta: I sipped.
Garibaldi: [to Lyta] You I believe.
Franklin: [chagrined] What? Why do you believe her and not me?
Garibaldi: Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a better liar than you are.
Lyta: Thank you. [pause] Wait a minute! [...] What do you mean I'm a good liar?
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[Garibaldi tries to use his ISN fame to get past Sheridan's guard.]
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.
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.
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Lyta: Pain...[whispered into a guard's ear; he then howls in agony and drops to the floor in a heap]
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Susan Ivanova: This is the White Star fleet. Negative on the surrender. We will not stand down.
Captain Thomson, Earthforce: Who is this? Identify yourself!
Ivanova: 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.
Captain Thomson, Earthforce: Who is this? Identify yourself!
Ivanova: 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.
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[Sheridan's liberation fleet finally confronts Earth itself.]
John Sheridan: This is Captain John Sheridan. We are here on the authority of a multi-planetary force, that can no longer stand by and watch one of their greatest allies falling into darkness and despair. We are here on behalf of the thousands of civilians murdered under orders from the current administration, who have no one else to speak for them, and on behalf of the EarthForce units that have joined us to oppose the tyranny that has darkened Earth, ever since President Santiago was assassinated three years ago. We are here to place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch, and return our government to the hands of her people. We know that many in the government have wanted to act, but have been intimidated by threats of retaliation against your families, your friends. You are not alone anymore. We call upon you to rise up and do what's right! We have drawn their forces away from Earth and disabled them. The time to act is now! This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this alliance has [sic] forced us to take extraordinary means! For justice, for peace, for the future…we have come home!
John Sheridan: This is Captain John Sheridan. We are here on the authority of a multi-planetary force, that can no longer stand by and watch one of their greatest allies falling into darkness and despair. We are here on behalf of the thousands of civilians murdered under orders from the current administration, who have no one else to speak for them, and on behalf of the EarthForce units that have joined us to oppose the tyranny that has darkened Earth, ever since President Santiago was assassinated three years ago. We are here to place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch, and return our government to the hands of her people. We know that many in the government have wanted to act, but have been intimidated by threats of retaliation against your families, your friends. You are not alone anymore. We call upon you to rise up and do what's right! We have drawn their forces away from Earth and disabled them. The time to act is now! This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this alliance has [sic] forced us to take extraordinary means! For justice, for peace, for the future…we have come home!
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John Sheridan: [over radio] We need you, Delenn.
Delenn: [commanding the League's fleet] We are there.
Delenn: [commanding the League's fleet] We are there.
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[Franklin comforts Ivanova in her grief over Marcus's sacrifice.]
Susan Ivanova: All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.
Susan Ivanova: All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.
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Earth President Susanna Luchenko: Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of EarthForce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the Medal of Honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. Which by all right means I should give you the Medal of Honor, then have you shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the Joint Chiefs two hours ago. […] The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it in the wrong way, in the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is.
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John Sheridan: I find it amazing that you think that threats still mean anything to me. 'Do this or you're a dead man.' Death! Been there, done that.
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[Londo and G'Kar watch the ISN report on the new Interstellar Alliance.]
Londo Mollari: So, how does it feel to make history, hmm?
G'Kar: You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.
Londo Mollari: So, how does it feel to make history, hmm?
G'Kar: You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.
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Delenn: 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.
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[Londo and G'Kar's arrive on Babylon 5 during a celebration.]
Londo Mollari: So Doctor…who died?
Stephen Franklin: [confused] What are you talking about?
Londo Mollari: Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage ceremonies are solemn, sober. Moments of reflection…also regret, disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't get any worse you can sit back and enjoy the marriage. But to start with something like this? No, it is a very bad sign for the future.
[Franklin and Garabaldi walk off.]
Londo Mollari: Perhaps it is something I said?
G'Kar: Perhaps it is everything you say.
Londo Mollari: So Doctor…who died?
Stephen Franklin: [confused] What are you talking about?
Londo Mollari: Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage ceremonies are solemn, sober. Moments of reflection…also regret, disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't get any worse you can sit back and enjoy the marriage. But to start with something like this? No, it is a very bad sign for the future.
[Franklin and Garabaldi walk off.]
Londo Mollari: Perhaps it is something I said?
G'Kar: Perhaps it is everything you say.
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[500 years later, during a holographic simulation]
Delenn: What we are isn't a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will.
Delenn: What we are isn't a matter of flesh, it's a matter of will.
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[1000 years later, in a future primitive Earth, Brother Alwyn advises the doubting Brother Michael.]
Brother Alwyn: Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning.
Brother Michael: Then why were we born able to reason, if reason's useless?
Brother Alwyn: Not useless. But it's also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
Brother Alwyn: Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning.
Brother Michael: Then why were we born able to reason, if reason's useless?
Brother Alwyn: Not useless. But it's also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
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[The man from 1 million years hence prepares to leave the doomed Earth to the imminent Solar nova.]
Man: This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.[N]
Man: This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.[N]
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[last lines of the season]
John Sheridan: …and I was wondering if they will remember us in hundred years from now or a thousand. And I figure probably not.
Delenn: But it does not matter. We did what we did because it was right and not to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does.
John Sheridan: …and I was wondering if they will remember us in hundred years from now or a thousand. And I figure probably not.
Delenn: But it does not matter. We did what we did because it was right and not to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does.
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Elizabeth Lochley: As long as you're running an efficient operation and aren't looking for trouble, you are doing just fine.
David Corwin: That's what I'm trying to tell you. Around here we don't have to go looking for trouble. On B5, trouble comes looking for us.
David Corwin: That's what I'm trying to tell you. Around here we don't have to go looking for trouble. On B5, trouble comes looking for us.
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Londo Mollari: On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range.
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[A second attempt on Sheridan's life has been foiled.]
G'Kar: Do you want to be President?
John Sheridan: Yes.
G'Kar: Put your hand on the book and say "I do."
Sheridan: I do.
G'Kar: Good. Done. Let's eat.
G'Kar: Do you want to be President?
John Sheridan: Yes.
G'Kar: Put your hand on the book and say "I do."
Sheridan: I do.
G'Kar: Good. Done. Let's eat.
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Lennier: What kind of drink is that?
Vir Cotto: I'm not sure. The bartender called it a "Shirley Temple."
Lennier: Interesting. I've studied many Earth religions and I don't think I've ever heard of that particular temple.
Vir: Me neither. But, it's real good.
Lennier: Well then. I shall make a point to visit it on my next trip to Earth.
Vir Cotto: I'm not sure. The bartender called it a "Shirley Temple."
Lennier: Interesting. I've studied many Earth religions and I don't think I've ever heard of that particular temple.
Vir: Me neither. But, it's real good.
Lennier: Well then. I shall make a point to visit it on my next trip to Earth.
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[Londo's Brivari has been impounded for health and safety reasons]
Londo Mollari: Do you know what this is? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes that says, "Hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea."
Londo Mollari: Do you know what this is? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes that says, "Hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea."
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[Londo is having a vision about his life, for part of which he is sitting at a bar]
Londo: All of the bottles here are empty? The metaphor's getting a bit thick, don't you think?
Londo: All of the bottles here are empty? The metaphor's getting a bit thick, don't you think?
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John Sheridan: The Universe speaks in many languages but only one voice. A language which is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari. It speaks in the language of hope.
G'Kar: It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and of the language of the soul; but always it is the same voice; it is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us, and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born; it is the small still voice that says: "We are one." No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. We are one. Here, gathered together in common cause we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule: that we must be kind to one another.
Sheridan: Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one.
G'Kar: We are one.
G'Kar: It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and of the language of the soul; but always it is the same voice; it is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us, and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born; it is the small still voice that says: "We are one." No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. We are one. Here, gathered together in common cause we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule: that we must be kind to one another.
Sheridan: Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one.
G'Kar: We are one.
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Byron: That's why we're here. Because we're tired of being ordered around by those who cannot hear the song. Tired of being used as canon fodder, as inquisitors, as executioners, and as bloodhounds.
Lyta Alexander: They forget we're human beings, too.
Byron: No, not human beings. Better. That's why they're afraid of us. It's all ego, you know. "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.…" The paragon of animals. 6,000 years of brutality, murder and slavery. An animal does not do this to its own kind, but they do it to each other. And they would do it to us! Unless we stop them. Unless we find a way to help each other. Unless we care for one another.
Lyta Alexander: They forget we're human beings, too.
Byron: No, not human beings. Better. That's why they're afraid of us. It's all ego, you know. "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.…" The paragon of animals. 6,000 years of brutality, murder and slavery. An animal does not do this to its own kind, but they do it to each other. And they would do it to us! Unless we stop them. Unless we find a way to help each other. Unless we care for one another.
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Delenn: What if the station falls?
Sheridan: Then, as you said to me once, "I'll see you again in the place where no shadows fall."
Sheridan: Then, as you said to me once, "I'll see you again in the place where no shadows fall."
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