Babylon 5 quotes

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Minister Vatelli: (referring to G'Kar) And I see you brought your own entertainment with you! An excellent idea... and quite brave of you to let him so close without keeping him in chains. Perhaps we should change that. Just a few chains to make the others more comfortable before we put him in a cell.
Londo Mollari He is my bodyguard.
Vatelli: Well it's good to know that his excellency's sense of humor is intact after such a long voyage.

Morden: If restoring the Centauri Republic means nothing to you, what does? What do you want?
Vir Cotto: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this.
[He gives Morden a mockingly cheerful finger waggle.]
Vir: Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?

Morden: What do you want?
Londo Mollari: To be left alone!
[Londo leaves the lift and quickly walks away.]
Morden: Is that it? Is that really all, Ambassador?
[Londo sighs, then turns around.]
Londo: 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-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� 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?
[He turns and walks off.]
Morden: [smiling] Yes. Yes, it does.

Na'Kal: Breen! You've managed to import breen from Homeworld! How?
G'Kar: It, uh...isn't actually breen.
Na'Kal: The smell, the taste--!
G'Kar: It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs! I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth.[N]

Narn Courier: Are you Ambassador G'Kar?
G'Kar: This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table! This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner! Which part of this progression escapes you?!

Number One: So it really couldn't�
Stephen Franklin: No, you're right. It couldn't�
Number One: So there we are.
Franklin: There you go, yeah.
Franklin: You know, I do have about an hour before my next shift starts, in case you wanted to...celebrate your new job.
Number One: More than an hour or less than an hour?
Franklin: About an hour and ten minutes.
Number One: You go on ahead. You know how I like the lights.

Psi Cop Lauren Ashley: We don't often see a sense of humor in Psi Cops.
Alfred Bester: Reports of our depression are vastly exaggerated.

Rabbi Yossel Koslov: Without forgiveness, you cannot mourn. And without mourning, you can never let go of the pain.

Rathenn: I have the strangest feeling I will never see him again.
Vorlon: He is the closed circle. He is returning to the beginning.
Rathenn: The beginning of what?
[The Vorlon turns and moves away.]

Regent: You do understand, Jano, that if it were my decision, that I would never let anyone harm you, I would never let anyone hurt you. If it were my decision... But it's not my decision, you see (Jano is killed by the Drakh). Not my decision at all!

Regent: I have been many things in my life, Mollari. I have been silly. I have been quiet when I should have spoken. I have been foolish. And I have wasted far too much time. But I am still Centauri, and I am not afraid.
[the Drakh keeper leaves his body, and he dies in Londo's arms]

Rev. Dexter: Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the one who believes differently than we do? No, oh no, my friends. The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you.

Rev. Dexter: I'd rather do something and make a mistake than be frightened into doing nothing. That's the problem 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. The only question is, who's doing it?

Rev. Dexter: 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."

Senator Hidoshi: You are not the most popular person in government circles right now.
[After the call ends]
Sinclair: [unhappily] So what else is new?