Babylon 5 quotes

561 total quotes


Sheridan: Why not come up with a way to turn the war room into...I don't know...The Voice of the Resistance! Susan, during World War II, the French Resistance used to go on the air for one hour a night, always from a different location, broadcasting the real news about the war. Providing intelligence for the resistance fighters, encouraging Germans to defect. Well, why can't we do the same thing here?
Ivanova: Why do I get the ugly suspicion that you're volunteering me for this job?
Sheridan: I accept your offer!

Sinclair: I need Lennier to stay on the ship. Can you get the equipment up here by yourself?
Zathras: Yes, yes! Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life! Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry!

Sinclair: Ready?
Delenn: Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you're going to do something massively unwise?
Sinclair: [smiling] Tradition.

Sinclair: Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything.

Sinclair: We've confiscated the fake encounter suit. It's a pretty close match to your own, at least from the outside.
Kosh: Why?
Sinclair: Deuce wanted to make people think he had the Vorlons working for him. He figured it would add to his image and intimidate people.
Kosh: Why?
Sinclair: Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people a little nervous.
Kosh: Good.

Sinclair: You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy!

Sinclair: You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes, but I couldn't run this station without you.
Michael Garibaldi: Commander, I sense a huge pay raise coming my way.
Sinclair: Hah. Dream on.

Sinclair: Zathras, this is very important. When you meet me again, it will be me, but it won't be me now. So you're not to say anything to me that might change the past. Do you understand?
Zathras: Zathras understand. [pauses] No. Zathras not understand. But Zathras do! Zathras good at doings, not understandings.
. . .
[Zathras is confused about what he's not supposed to say.]
Sheridan: W-what else is on this list of things you're not supposed to mention?
Zathras: Zathras... does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you.

Soul Hunter #2: If I may ask, what happened to my brother's collection?
Sinclair: [with a sly smile] Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them.

Soul Hunter: Faith is good. But sometimes faith is blind.

Soul Hunter: I have come for you, Satai Delenn, to save your soul at any cost.

Soul Hunter: I will be careful. You will hardly feel it when your body dies.

Soul Hunter: The soul we save: not all, only the special ones. Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics.

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: You will feel as if you are falling. Do not be afraid. I will be here to catch you.