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Babylon 5 Quotes

At the risk of being excessively silly, I must say that Babylon 5 is one of the best shows to ever be on television. I watched it obsessively when it was first airing. If you have never seen the show, go watch it. Now. Right now. 5pm. Sci-Fi Channel. Go.

If you haven't seen the show, you probably don't want to be here, because I did what I do with every entertainment medium I enjoy. I collected quotes. A lot of quotes. Quotes by the bushel! Quotes by the pound! Quotes for all occasions! Some of the quotes are humorous. Some of the quotes are thought-provoking. Many of the quotes contain spoilers.

Since my collection of Babylon 5 quotes is prohibitively long, I've divided the quotes up by season. Click on the season you want. If you don't know what season you want, either go through the list in order, or click on the link to all the seasons. The quotes are in episode order. Enjoy!

Season One

"The Narn Regime is dedicated to peace!"

-- Ambassador G'Kar in "The Gathering"

"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."

-- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"Babylons one, two and three were sabotaged and destroyed. Number four vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. To this day no one knows what happened to it."

-- Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one's mind to change the Universe."

-- Ambassador Delenn in "The Gathering"

"Do you not have files on the Vorlons?"
"Absolutely. Very large files. There's nothing in them, of course."

-- Delenn and Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky."

-- Delenn about Vorlon files in "The Gathering"

"Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would prefer conscious, but I don't know what your...pleasure threshold is."

-- G'Kar to Lyta Alexander in "The Gathering"

"Can you imagine what we could achieve together?"
"I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen."

-- G'Kar and Delenn in "The Gathering"

"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting at one another. You would've thought sooner or later it would go out of fashion."

-- Ambassador Londo Mollari in "The Gathering"

"My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. 'See the great Centauri Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.'"

-- Londo in "The Gathering"

"I don't trust telepaths. Never have; never will."

-- Michael Garibaldi in "The Gathering"

"Michael, I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the ass. And I wouldn't have it any other way."

-- Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"No, we were beaten. We didn't stop them; they stopped themselves. I wish to hell I knew why."

-- Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"There is a hole...in your mind."

-- The Assassin to Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?"

-- Garibaldi in "The Gathering"

"Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked at me and said: 'There's a hole in your mind.'"
"An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about."

-- Sinclair and Delenn in "The Gathering"

"I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest."

-- Delenn to Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'"

-- Sinclair in "The Gathering"

"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy."

-- Garibaldi in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist."
"Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist."
"Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?"

-- Londo and Garibaldi in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"I'm in the middle of 15 things -- all of them annoying."

-- Lt. Comdr. Susan Ivanova in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"My father always told me: 'the best way to understand someone is to fight him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person.'"

-- Sinclair in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"I've never seen the Minbari fight dishonorably. They never pull a sneak attack."

-- Sinclair in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"I think I'll vote for Marie Crane...I do not like Santiago. I always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination."

-- Ivanova in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"We should've wiped out your kind when we had the chance."
"What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?"

-- Londo and G'Kar in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Listen to me, Ambassador. Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now! One night you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat. Sleep well, Ambassador. Sleep lightly."

-- G'Kar to Londo in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"My people...we have a way you see. We know how, and sometimes even when, we are going to die. Comes in a dream. In my dream I am an old man, it's 20 years from now, and I am dying. My hands wrapped around someone's throat, and his around mine. We have squeezed the life out of each other. The first time I saw G'Kar I recognized him as the one from the dream. It will happen. 20 years from now, we'll die with hands around each others' throats."

-- Londo in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Commander, please. On the issue of galactic peace, I'm long past innocence and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game -- a paper fantasy of names and borders. Only one thing matters, Commander. Blood calls out for blood."

-- Londo in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"If you ask me, the universe is going to hell in a hand basket."

-- Garibaldi in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass."
"Who? The Narn or the Centauri?"
"Yes."

-- Ambassador Kosh and Sinclair in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Londo, Londo, why are you doing this?"
"Because, we are a race of lunatics and cowards."

-- Vir Cotto and Londo in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Be careful, Ambassador. Not every dream I've heard lately ends well for you."

-- Sinclair in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"To start a war over blood spilled so long ago. Where does it end? You kill them and take their land. They kill you and take the land back. On and on and on. The cycle of hatred."
"Justice, not hatred. We have no desire to start a war."

-- Delenn and G'Kar in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Mr. Garibaldi, just now, would you really have killed me?"
"Yes. Yes, I would've, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The paperwork's a pain in the butt."

-- Londo and Garibaldi in "Midnight on the Firing Line"

"Always this busy around here?"
"Yes. We like it that way."

-- Doctor Stephen Franklin and Ivanova in "Soul Hunter"

"If I can't make it, you'll have to blow up that ship before it hits."
"Why not destroy it now?"
"First contact protocol, Lieutenant Commander. Only when conditions present a clear and present danger. If this is a new technology, a new race, I want that ship intact."
"This isn't a clear and present danger? I must read the rulebook again."

-- Sinclair and Ivanova in "Soul Hunter"

"Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then...it's over."
"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd still make the same mistakes."
"You're a pessimist."
"I'm Russian, Doctor. We understand these things."

-- Franklin and Ivanova in "Soul Hunter"

"I remember. They called you Satai Delenn of the Grey Council. Curious. Curious. What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari doing here playing ambassador?"

-- Soul Hunter #1 in "Soul Hunter"

"Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai. She is Satai. I've seen her soul. They're using you. They're using you!"

-- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair about Delenn in "Soul Hunter"

"From the stars we came, and to the stars we return, from now until the end of time."

-- Ivanova in "Soul Hunter"

"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?"
"On that, Mollari, we can at least agree."

-- Londo and G'Kar in "Born to the Purple"

"What if we are seen together? What will people say?"
"They'll say...they'll say Ambassador Mollari is a most fortunate man. We Centauri live our lives for appearances, possessions, status, title. These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptiness. And then I think of you...and I say: to hell with appearances."

-- Adira and Londo in "Born to the Purple"

"Don't give away the homeworld."

-- Londo to Vir in "Born to the Purple"

"Just don't give away the homeworld."

-- G'Kar to Ko'Dath in "Born to the Purple"

"I never knew you could be so devious, Commander."
"Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment."

-- G'Kar and Sinclair in "Born to the Purple"

"The last time I gave an interview they told me to just relax and say what I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and an ouiji board."
"Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, efflorescent commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here."

-- Sinclair and Garibaldi in "Infection"

"Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain."

-- Ivanova to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer in "Infection"

"You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy."

-- Sinclair in "Infection"

"I know a lot of guys who came out of the war changed. Some came out better; some came out worse. A lot of them had this problem. The war gave them definition, direction, purpose. Without it they don't know how to fit in anymore, so they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero, maybe so. I don't know. I've never been one. Me, I think they're looking for something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something worth living for."

-- Garibaldi in "Infection"

"If you need me, I'll be over there, getting drunk with the rest of the aliens."

-- Ivanova in "Infection"

"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes...and all of this...all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."

-- Sinclair in "Infection"

"Are you Ambassador G'Kar?"
"This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?"

-- Tu'Pari and G'Kar in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Ah, our household gods. In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the gods you can get."

-- Londo in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!"

-- Londo in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute! Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple... I'm stunning!"

-- Londo in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Ah! He has become one with his inner self!"
"He's passed out."
"That too."

-- Vir and Garibaldi about Londo in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you."

-- Catherine Sakai to Sinclair in "Parliament of Dreams"

"What would you say if I told you that councilor Du'Rog hired someone to kill me? Someone close to me."
"Ambassador, with all due respect, if it were me, you wouldn't be here for us to have this conversation."

-- G'Kar and Na'Toth in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how anything gets into your bed."

-- Na'Toth to G'Kar in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Earthers have a phrase: 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' I believe they stole it from us."

-- G'Kar in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"I can not have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into things."

-- Delenn to Lennier in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Do you understand?"
"No, but understanding is not required, only obedience."

-- Delenn and Lennier in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death? And the nine said: 'yes.' Then do this in testimony to the one who will follow, will bring death couched into promise of new life, and renewal disguised as defeat...From birth, through death and renewal, you must put aside old things, old fears, old lives. This is your death, the death of flesh, the death of pain, the death of yesterday. Taste of it and be not afraid, for I am with you to the end of time...Taste of it...And so it begins."

-- Delenn in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: Hot pink is definitely your color."

-- Garibaldi to G'Kar in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. And then you are to die at the required hour."

-- Tu'Pari to G'Kar in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"That hurt."
"Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear as though I were beating you into another incarnation."
"And you didn't enjoy it in the least."
"I didn't say that."

-- G'Kar and Na'Toth in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain..."
"...And you will know fear..."
"...And then you will die. Have a pleasant flight."

-- G'Kar and Na'Toth to Tu'Pari in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Oh, it's a rebirth ceremony, all right. It also doubles as a marriage ceremony. Depending on how seriously anyone took it, somebody got married the other day."
"Maybe that's why G'Kar was smiling. Funny. I didn't think Londo was his type."

-- Sakai and Sinclair in "The Parliament of Dreams"

"Since we bear a greater responsibility, we are afforded greater latitude, in the interest of efficiency."

-- Alfred Bester in "Mind War"

"And Psi Cops? What are you rated?"
"P12. Someone has to keep an eye on the rest."
"Yes, but who watches the watchmen?"

-- Ivanova and Kelsey in "Mind War"

"No one here is exactly what he appears."

-- G'Kar in "Mind War"

"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try...anytime...anywhere."

-- Bester in "Mind War"

"We had our orders."
"Mister, I don't care if you had a personal message from God complete with stone tablets. You lied to me. You held information and put this station at risk."

-- Bester and Sinclair in "Mind War"

"Good ol' Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me! All the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper. What do you do in your spare time? Juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!"
"You're not helping the situation."
"Lady, you are the situation."

-- Ivanova and Kelsey in "Mind War"

"The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, Commander: control. Control over telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself."

-- Jason Ironheart in "Mind War"

"That's a lie."
"Yes, it is. What's your point?"

-- Bester and Sinclair in "Mind War"

"Be seeing you, Commander."

-- Bester in "Mind War"

"There are things in the Universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on."

-- G'Kar in "Mind War"

"They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the Universe, that we have not yet explained everything."

-- G'Kar in "Mind War"

"Love?! What does love have to do with marriage?"

-- Londo in "The War Prayer"

"Love? Pah. Overrated. Here, look, these are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? Their personalities could shatter entire planets! Arranged marriages, every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were waiting at home for me is what keeps me here -- 75 lights years away."

-- Londo in "The War Prayer"

"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance."

-- Londo in "The War Prayer"

"And we won. Not because we outfought them, not because we were luckier than them or stronger than them or smarter than them. We won because the damn Minbari let us win."

-- Sinclair in "The War Prayer"

"We want to put Earth back at the center of the universe, our universe, get rid of alien influences, get rid of aliens, put Earth first. We must get back to our roots. Let humans be humans."

-- Malcolm Biggs in "The War Prayer"

"Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice."

-- Sinclair in "And the Sky Full of Stars"

"What about you, Ambassador? What did you do during the war?"
"A topic for another time. Good day, doctor."

-- Franklin and Delenn in "And the Sky Full of Stars"

"Mr. Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to think the way you do."

-- Ivanova in "And the Sky Full of Stars"

"When I looked at those ships, I didn't just see my death. I saw the death of the whole damn human race."

-- Sinclair in "And the Sky Full of Stars"

"He must never know what happened. If he should find out, he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?"

-- Grey Council member about Sinclair in "And the Sky Full of Stars"

"Understanding is a three-edged sword."

-- Kosh in "Deathwalker"

"That's when the Council first learned she was with them. Of course we could not reveal it then. And like all secrets long kept, we can not bear the shame of admitting it now."

-- Lennier in "Deathwalker"

"Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive...for a few seconds."

-- Ivanova in "Deathwalker"

"Delicious irony, don't you think? That those who cursed us will have to thank us for the rest of time."

-- Jha'dur in "Deathwalker"

"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?"
"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future."

-- Talia Winters and Kosh in "Deathwalker"

"You will fall upon one another like wolves. It'll make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work, and the billions who are murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance of my work. Not like us, you will become us. That's my monument, Commander."

-- Jha'dur in "Deathwalker"

"You are not ready for immortality."

-- Kosh in "Deathwalker"

"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today."
"They say God works in mysterious ways."
"Maybe so, but He's a con-man compared to the Vorlon."

-- Garibaldi and Sinclair in "Deathwalker"

"The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

-- Kosh in "Believers"

"'Sure' is for people with nothing on the line."

-- Garibaldi in "Believers"

"What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them."

-- Sinclair in "Believers"

"Who asked you to play God?"
"Every damn patient who comes through that door."

-- Sinclair and Franklin in "Believers"

"I'm waiting. For an apology."
"You better check the temperature in Hell first."

-- Franklin and Sinclair in "Believers"

"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything."

-- Sinclair in "Believers"

"You are going to resist, I hope."

-- Ivanova in "Survivors"

"Ilaros?"
"Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have had a long and rather dubious relationship."

-- Garibaldi and Londo in "Survivors"

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."

-- G'Kar in "Survivors"

"Oh, why does the universe hate me?"

-- G'Kar in "By Any Means Necessary"

"You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure where they will point."

-- Sinclair in "By Any Means Necessary"

"Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for."
"There are a couple Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you."

-- G'Kar and Sinclair in "By Any Means Necessary"

"Sleep well?"
"Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up -- that is a problem. I've always had hard time getting up when it's dark outside."
"But in space it's always dark."
"I know, I know."

-- Sinclair and Ivanova in "Signs and Portents"

"I've been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing some exploration out on the rim."
"Find anything interesting?"
"Yes."

-- Morden and a customs guard in "Signs and Portents"

"What do you want?"

-- Morden in "Signs and Portents"

"What do I want? The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice."
"But what do you want?"
"To suck the marrow off their bones, and grind their skulls to powder."
"What do you want?"
"To tear down their cities, blacken their sky, sow their ground with salt. To completely, utterly erase them."
"And then what?"
"I don't know. As long as my home world's safety is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters."
"I see. Well, thank you very much for your time, Ambassador. Good day."
"Nonsense."

-- G'Kar and Morden in "Signs and Portents"

"They are here."

-- Delenn in "Signs and Portents"

"Oh! This place. Great Makers, this place! No! See this: destruction, fire. Babylon will fall. This place will be destroyed. Fire, death, pain, fire, death, pain. No. No!"

-- Lady Ladira in "Signs and Portents"

"Then you don't believe her vision?"
"She's been wrong before. On my first birthday she said that someday I would be killed by...the shadows."

-- Londo and Lord Kiro in "Signs and Portents"

"All right. Fine. You really want to know what I want? You really want to know the truth? I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again and command the stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to look back or to look forward. I want us to be what we used to be! I want...I want it all back, the way that it was. Does that answer your question?" [leaves]
"Yes. Yes it does."

-- Londo and Morden in "Signs and Portents"

"Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. NOW!"

-- Kosh to Morden in "Signs and Portents"

"You probably know you weren't the first in line to run this place."
"I suspected as much. I was surprised when they called me. How far down the list was I?"
"Pretty far. Despite the problems this is still a high-profile job, a real plum. Admirals, generals, the whole brass was lined up hoping to get it, but every name was rejected until they got to you."
"Rejected by whom?"
"The Minbari government. They were the first to sign on to support Babylon 5 on the condition they had approval over who was assigned to run this place. They wanted you."
"Why?"
"Unknown."

-- Garibaldi and Sinclair in "Signs and Portents"

"The future is always changing. We create the future: with our words, our deeds and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, and it is my hope that you may yet avoid it."

-- Lady Ladira in "Signs and Portents"

"How are things back home?"
"They change, they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say: 'If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit-basket.'"

-- Ivanova and Rabbi Yossel Koslov in "TKO"

"They say food digests better if you chew it first."
"Don't talk, I've seen you eat. Does the term Doppler-effect ring a bell?"

-- Sinclair and Garibaldi in "Grail"

"Why is it Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me."

-- Ombuds Wellington in "Grail"

"It doesn't matter that his Grail may or may not exist. What matters is that he strives for the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never wavered or lost faith."

-- Delenn in "Grail"

"He's probably the only true seeker we have."
"Then perhaps you don't know yourself...as well as you think."

-- Sinclair and Delenn in "Grail"

"Make me a happy man. Let me clean out Down-Below. If I put all my teams out, I can wipe 9/10 of the crime rate in one sweep."
"Most of them are just people with nowhere else to go. They come here looking for a new life, a new job, and when they don't find it, they can't afford transport back. What are you gonna do, Mr. Garibaldi? Shove them out an airlock?"
"Don't tempt me."

-- Garibaldi and Sinclair in "Grail"

"My brother's burdens are my own. What I want to know is why you believe you can't leave the station."
"Because if I do, it'll blow up, or disappear, or something else awful like that will happen. Come on, laugh. Everyone else does. It's real, the Babylon curse."
"I'm not laughing, Thomas. I understand obsession very well. I've spent the better part of my life searching for something that no one else believes in. And I will continue searching until I die."

-- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in "Grail"

"You need to find another witness."
"When the word gets out about Miriam, I've got as much chance of doing that as seeing a Vorlon doing strip-tease."

-- Sinclair and Garibaldi in "Grail"

"The only good na'ka'leen is a dead na'ka'leen."

-- Londo in "Grail"

"There are two castes of Minbari. The warrior caste and the religious caste. The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way."
"So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion."

-- Lennier and Delenn in "Grail"

"These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?"
"Yes. And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A terrible power, as recent events have shown us. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime."

-- Aldous Gajic and Delenn in "Grail"

"One man's lunatic is another's true seeker."
"You have been hanging around Delenn too much."

-- Sinclair and Garibaldi in "Grail"

"Vir! What are you doing?"
"Why, I'm being efficient, sir."
"A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic will efficient itself to extinction."

-- Londo and Vir in "Grail"

"Fools to the left of me, feeders to the right. I need to find a real job."

-- Londo in "Grail"

"See yourself for what you are, not what others try to make you."

-- Aldous Gajic in "Grail"

"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom, sooner or later. BOOM!"

-- Ivanova in "Grail"

"What does it do? It's a motorcycle. You ride it. Wrooom!"

-- Garibaldi in "Eyes"

"I will not submit to a telepathic scan, Commander. It's against my person and my principles."
"I don't like it any better than you do. Enough people have played with my brain already this year."

-- Ivanova and Sinclair in "Eyes"

"Mr. Gray, I'm grateful the Psi Corps give you purpose in life, but when that purpose includes scanning my mind to prove my loyalty, it's not only an invasion of my privacy, but my honor. As for fear, if you enter my mind for any reason I will twist your head off and use it for a chamber pot. If you'll excuse me."

-- Ivanova in "Eyes"

"Protests are as much useful with the Vorlons as fairie-wings on a cement-truck."

-- Garibaldi in "Eyes"

[Garibaldi and Lennier drive a motorcycle in the Central Corridor.]
"It's good to have things back to normal."

-- Ivanova in "Eyes"

"I know, he commanded one of the ships that splashed my team, but the war is over. At least that's what I keep telling myself."

-- Sinclair in "Legacies"

"There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right."

-- Ivanova in "Legacies"

"Oh, by the way. Do you know what they say Narn taste like?"
"Yeah, chicken. Man, I really need a vacation."

-- Franklin and Garibaldi in "Legacies"

"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive."
"We'd like to think so."

-- Neroon and Sinclair in "Legacies"

"If the Narns all stood together in one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could fly across dozens of light years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's how much they hate us."

-- Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"There's a natural law. Physics tells us that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are: victims of mathematics."

-- Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"What better way to go out than in the pursuit of scientific advancement?"
"Is this a multiple choice question? Because I have a few ideas."

-- Tasaki and Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope that things will get better, that our inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is vastly overrated. Good day, Commander."

-- Delenn in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Incorrect answer. The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one."

-- Draal in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out. Babylon Control out...Civilians! [Looking up] I was just kidding about the God part -- no offense."

-- Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Ah, Mr. Garibaldi, off duty I see. Ahm. Water, fascinating! I never touch the stuff myself."

-- Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad."
"You try to kiss me and I'll break your arm."
"We are not that close, Mr. Garibaldi."

-- Londo and Garibaldi in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It's a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it."

-- Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

[Sinclair throws a rock to a laser defense system]
"Well, that'll cut down on tourism."

-- Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference."

-- Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"So, if we go down there, it blows. If we don't it blows anyway, just a little later. It's a good thing I'm Russian, we're used to hopeless situations."

-- Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Do you really want to know what's going on down there right now?"
"Yes, absolutely."
"Boom. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. BOOM! Have a nice day."

-- Ivanova and Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Worst case of testosterone poisoning I've ever seen."

-- Ivanova in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"Now, landing thrusters...landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?"

-- Londo in "A Voice in the Wilderness "

"Why didn't you come to us, and let us handle it?"
"Because if I had, I know in my heart that Commander Sinclair would be the one down there right now. He's looking for a purpose. But his destiny lies elsewhere."

-- Garibaldi and Delenn in "A Voice in the Wilderness"

"You're so serious all the time. Not every conversation has to be the end of the world as we know it."

-- Garibaldi in "Babylon Squared"

"I'm not having this conversation."

-- Sinclair in "Babylon Squared"

"Prophecy will attend to itself."

-- Grey Council Spokesman in "Babylon Squared"

"Jeff, it's okay, I finally understand. This is the moment I was born for. Now go. Go!"

-- Garibaldi in "Babylon Squared"

"They fight, they argue, they are ruled by passions and fears."
"Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, the unique capacity to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them...and they only come back stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle and blood. That they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk among the stars, like giants. They are the future. And we have much to learn from them."

-- Grey Council member and Delenn about Humans in "Babylon Squared"

"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."

-- Zathras in "Babylon Squared"

"You have a destiny."

-- Zathras to Sinclair in "Babylon Squared"

"Next! We start by removing your clothes."
"Not without dinner and flowers."

-- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova in "The Quality of Mercy"

"Here, my friend, here you will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5. Also, its spleen, its kidneys, a veritable parade of internal organs. Sit. Sit."

-- Londo in "The Quality of Mercy"

"I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen."
"Yes, and I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the room stops spinning."
"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning."
"Well, you begin to see my problem."

-- Sinclair and Londo in "The Quality of Mercy"

"When we were at the gaming table somehow a part of you reached out for the cards."
"Yes, Yes."
"What was that?"
(Whispers) "Yes it's true. Yes. Here, Li, goddess of passion, a synthesis of male and female Centauri, did you think these were just decorations?"
"I am going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation."

-- Lennier and Londo in "The Quality of Mercy"

"I think I will stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a while I might even come to enjoy it."

-- Londo in "Chrysalis"

"But this...this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by...what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet...go 'quack'?"
"Cats."
"Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by cats."

-- Londo and Vir in "Chrysalis"

"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors."

-- Londo in "Chrysalis"

"In order to be free you had to learn to fight. No one questions that. But you've overcompensated. You are like abused children who have grown big enough to do the same thing to someone else as if it would somehow balance the scales. It won't. If you let the anger cloud your judgment, it will destroy you."

-- Sinclair to G'Kar in "Chrysalis"

"Ten thousand of our best warriors dead. As if some great hand reached out of space and...just erased them. It wasn't the Humans. The Centauri don't have the will. And the Vorlons don't care. The Minbari wouldn't do it. The other worlds aren't powerful enough for a strike like this...There's someone else out there, Na'Toth."

-- G'Kar in "Chrysalis"

"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?"
"But...What if you are wrong?"
"Then speak well of me when I'm gone."

-- Delenn and Lennier in "Chrysalis"

"And so, it begins. You have forgotten something."

-- Kosh in "Chrysalis"

"She is changing."
"Into what?"
"I don't know."

-- Lennier and Sinclair in "Chrysalis"

"Yes. I think he's ready. He's perfect for our needs. No. No. He suspects nothing. And when the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly as we wish. Destiny is on our side."

-- Morden to his associates in "Chrysalis"

"Nothing's the same anymore."

-- Sinclair in "Chrysalis"

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