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Babylon 5 Quotes

"This place is about something, not some...DEEP SPACE franchise!"
--Susan Ivanova, Voices of Authority.

Choices

"Isn't it strange, G'Kar? When we first met,
I had no power .. and all the choices I could ever want.
And now I have all the power I could ever want ..
and no choices at all. No choice .. at all."
-- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"

"It has occurred to me recently that *I* have never chosen anything.
I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything
I was asked to do, because it never *occurred* to me to choose otherwise.
And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might've been."
"That's why my father taught me to live each second as though it would be
the last moment of my life. He said: 'If you love, love without reservation.
If you fight, fight without fear.' He called it the way of the warrior."
"No regrets then?"
"A few. But just a few. You?"
"Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. 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. And I intend to do just that."
-- Centauri Emperor and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows

"There's always a choice. We say there is no choice, only to comfort
ourselves with a decision we have already made. Now if you understand
that there's hope. If not..."
-- Londo and Lady Morella, "Point of No Return"

Responsibility

"You know what the problem is? All your life you've run away from everything."
-- Franklin, "Shadow Dancing"

"Take responsibility for your actions for crying out load. You go in
there and you fight for what matters to you. Don't just walk away because
its easier."
-- Franklin, "Shadow Dancing"

"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 to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents

Consequences

"The city was drowning in decay, .. chaos, immorality. A message needed to be
sent, etched in blood, for all the world to see: a warning. In the pursuit
of my .. holy cause, I .. did things, terrible things, unspeakable things.
The world condemned me, but it didn't matter, because I believed I was right
and the world was wrong. I believed I was the divine messenger. I believed
I was--"
"Chosen?"
".. I was .. *found* by the Vorlons. They showed me the terrible depth of my
mistake, .. my crimes, my .. *presumption*. I have done 400 years of penance
in their service. A job, for which they said I was ideally suited. Now,
perhaps, they will finally let me die."
"I think that *might* be wise."
"Good luck to you in *your* holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May *your* choices
have better results than mine. Remembered, *not* as a messenger, remembered
not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian.
Remembered only .. as *Jack*."
-- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor"

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."
-- Marcus (to Franklin), "A Late Delivery From Avalon"

"You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become
obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the enemy."
-- Sinclair to 'Tular' in Babylon 5:"Infection"

"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything.
It can drive you crazy."
"It's all words. Just words."
-- Sinclair and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers"

"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 judgement,
it will destroy you."
-- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis"

"Now, if I may ask, does this torment end when you leave, or am I going to
have to spend the rest of my life paying for one little mistake?"
"Oh, I'm afraid you have to spend the rest of your life paying for your
mistakes. *Not* this one of course, it's trivial, I have withdrawn the
spell, but there will be others."
"What are you talking about?"
"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will
grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen.
I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only
thing I can, I go."
-- Londo and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows"

"Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, *suddenly* everyone
is my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I've
turned to a wishing-well with legs."
-- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice"

"You are linked at the hip. Just as bad as she is. But you are not just a
dreamer, you are a soldier. How far are you prepared to go? How much
are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice
for victory? Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by
everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is
to come."
-- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor"

"I have been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries, looking for you.
Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an honest man willing to die for all
the wrong reasons."
-- Sebastian to Delenn & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor"

"What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are you
willing to sacrifice them? What about your *family*, what about your God,
what about truth, what about blood, what about right, what about wrong,
what about your future, what about faith, what about sin, what about hell,
what about death, what about life?"
-- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor"

Facing Fear

"I'd rather do something and make a mistake than be frightened
into doing nothing. That's the problem today back home.
Folks have been conned into thinking they can't change the world,
have to accept what is. I'll tell you something, my friends,
the world is changing every day, only question is, who's doing it."
-- Reverend Dexter, "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"

"G'Quon 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."
-- G'Kar, "Z'ha'dum"

"There is nothing in the dark. No fear. No pain. Only the light.
Show yourself. Show yourself."
-- Aldous Gajic (to the Na'Ka'Leen feeder), "Grail"

"The Minbari say the only way to understand the battle
is to understand the language. War is as much concept as execution."
'What else did they teach you?'
"Delight, respect, compassion. That for your actions to be pure,
they must precede from direction, determination, patience,
and strength. I'm afraid I'm still working on patience.
They taught me how to live, how to breathe, how to fight,
and how to die. And they taught me terror...
how to use it and how to face it."
'I think I'd like to hear more about that.'
"No...you wouldn't."
-- Marcus and Franklin, "A Late Delivery From Avalon"

"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!"
-- Marcus (to Neroon), "Grey 17 is Missing"

"Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places,
but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place .. and the right
time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being
born."
-- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star"

"I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there
could be anything worse than being all alone in the night."
"But there is. Being all alone in a crowd."
-- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies"

"This body is only a shell. You can not touch me.
You can not harm me. I'm not afraid."
-- Delenn to Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor"