Other Quotes

"There is a hole ... in your mind."
- The Assassin to Sinclair: "The Gathering"

"Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors, infinities of reflection. Will not let us help them, no."
- Soul Hunter #1: "Soul Hunter"

"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive." "We like to think so."
- Neroon and Sinclair: "Legacies"

"Prophecy will attend to itself."
- Grey Council Spokesman to Delenn: "Babylon Squared"

"A man who won't stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all."
- General Richard Franklin: "GROPOS"

"What do you call two billion dead Markabs? Planetary redecorating."
- Bartender: "Confessions and Lamentations"

"Sometimes the test is not to find the answer, it is to see how you react when you realise there is no answer."
- Dr Lazarenn: "Confessions and Lamentations"

"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn *all* those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them."
- Brother Theo to Ivanova: "Convictions"

"Earth doesn't have homeless. We don't have the problem. Well, yes, there are *some* displaced people, here and there, but they've chosen to be in their position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally unstable."
"They can't get a job."
"Earth-gov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one."
"Poverty?"
"It's the same."
"Crime?"
"Yes, there is some, but it's all caused by the mentally unstable. And we've *just* instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age."
"Prejudice?"
"No, we are just one happy planet."
- Julie Musante and Sheridan: "Voices of Authority"

"When it is time, come to this place. Call our name. We will be here."
- First Ones: "Voices of Authority"

"Traitors can't hide."
- Nightwatch banner: "Severed Dreams"

"Always bet on stupidity."
- Sniper: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"

"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 to Garibaldi: "Between the Darkness and the Light"

"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."
- Ranger: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

"Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would fail in its mission. Faith manages."
- Dedication: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

"The ways of Rome are like unto God. They are mysterious and sometimes they transcend understanding."
- Brother Alwin: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

"Faith sustains us, in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning."
- Brother Alwin: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"

"Any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas."
- Dodger to Garibaldi: "Day of the Dead"

"Every great fall begins with a single mistake."
- Drazi to Sheridan: "A Tragedy of Telepaths"

"To be Anla-Shok means understanding that there is nothing to fear in death except the failure to complete our assigned mission. *Death* is not the enemy, *death* simply *is*."
- Captain Enrico Montoya: "Meditations on the Abyss"

"Life is change. It's a good thing."
- Lise: "Wheel of Fire"