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  • edit / "I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story." —Londo Mollari's opening narrative, The Gathering
  • edit / "Plato once said that for everything that exists, there is a perfect form of it somewhere. A perfect human being, a perfect chair, a perfect stick, so that everything is a shadow of that one perfect form. Now, if we follow that train of thought, that means that somewhere in the universe there exists the perfect form of the perfect absolute and complete idiot and he left here an hour ago." —Matthew Gideon, The Rules of the Game
  • edit / "I think this is where I get off, metaphorically, metaphysically, and literally. But do go on riding, go around enough times and with any luck, you might come to the same conclusions that I have." —Galen, The Path of Sorrows
  • edit / "You were looking at gibberish for twenty minutes. Now look, if you want to do that, you ought to swing by my place sometime and I show you some twentieth century television." —Garibaldi, A Call to Arms
  • edit / "This symbol. This is a death symbol. And the other side, a symbol of life. Not life or death or life and death but life in death. Life eternal." —Dr. Bryson, The River of Souls
  • edit / "I need another bottle. I need several more bottles. And then .. wait one hour and bring the prisoners here." —Londo, In the Beginning
  • edit / "Every technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she only needed one."

"What word?"
"Hello."
—Galen and Matthew Gideon, The Well of Forever

"Yes. They are the key."
—Delenn and Kosh, In the Beginning

  • edit / "This star reminds that we are born of the stars, we live in star light, we die in star light. We come from the stars in life and return to the stars in death. We are done, this star should be placed in the heart of the ship, where it shall remain as long as we do. You name, your place, your truth." —Dulann, Legend of the Rangers
  • edit / "I thought you said you don't hold a grudge."

"I don't. I have no surviving enemies...at all."

—Matthew Gideon and Galen, Crusade episode unknown

  • edit / "Hello, Matthew. I just wanted you to know that I am here, and I'm watching, in case you should need help."

"Who's this?"
"Have you forgotten me so soon? Sad, but the way of the world, I suppose. Expect me when you see me."
—Galen and Gideon, episode unknown

  • edit / "You think anybody would notice if I just...killed...a few of them?"

"How many?"
"I don’t know...ten?"
"They’d notice."
"Six?"
"Go for it."
—Ivanova and Franklin, Thirdspace

  • edit / "Because if you are going to blow my head off, I suggest you do it right now or I am going tear your heart out. And if you do shoot me, the rest of my people will be all over you. And what they will do to you is worse than anything I can dream up in a thousand years and I can dream real dark." —Garibaldi, A Call to Arms
  • edit / Londo: The quiet ones are the ones who change the universe, Lucco Deradi. The loud ones only take the credit... In the Beginning
  • edit / Londo: Very well. Then I will give you both what you want: a story about great deeds, about armies of light and soldiers of darkness; about the places where they lived and fought and loved and died; about great empires, and terrible mistakes...a true story. You see: I was there at the dawn of the Third Age. It began with the humans, you know; they are the...the quiet ones I mentioned before. They changed the universe, and in doing so, paid a terrible price... (In the Beginning)
  • edit / "Have you ever wondered why there are so many dead worlds out there? Let me tell you why. It's because despite the best advise of people who know what they are talking about, other people insist on doing the most massively stupid things." —Galen, The Memory of War
  • edit / "The Centauris didn't exactly invent jumpgate technology either. None of the current races did. They found the gates when they got out into space, took them apart and put them back together again. No one even knows who built the first gate." —Bill Morishi, Thirdspace
  • edit / Lucco Deradi: Are you really the Emperor?

Londo: I sometimes ask myself the same thing. Yes, I am the Emperor. Here. You see? This is the seal of the Centauri Republic. Only the Emperor can wear it. So, either I am the Emperor, or, I am in a great deal of trouble -- or both... In the Beginning

  • edit / "Yes, I'm a thief and a damn good one. Need to get inside something? get out? tunnel under? go around? go through? I'm it. You're going to hit some pretty strange places and you're going to need lock pick. There isn't a lock made, that I can't get through." —Dureena, War Zone
  • edit / "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, The Gathering
  • edit / Londo: Lucco. Come here -- here: For the next five minutes, you are the Emperor of what was once the vast Centauri Republic... You may give one order -- any order you desire... Make it a good one. What do you want? (In the Beginning)
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