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Month of September quotes: (note, I will format these later --RC)

  • edit / "The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow War it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5." (Ivanova; S3E01, Matters of Honor)
  • edit / "Delenn tells me that you are going to try contacting the First Ones. It is a magnificent idea. A daring, and splendid idea. In doing so you will see things no human has seen before. It will be fun. Assuming you are not vaporised, dissected, or otherwise killed in an assortment of supremely horrible and painful ways. Exciting, isn't it?" (Draal; S3E04, Voices of Authority)
  • edit / "We have just been thrust into the middle of extraordinary events. So we must approach this calmly and rationally. Those are not the enemy out there. We wear the same uniforms, and we've both sworn to uphold the Constitution. They're as loyal to Earth as you are, and we will render humanitarian aid to them. Because .. as much as our humanity .. got us into this .. our humanity's the only thing that's going to get us out again." (Sheridan; S3E10, Severed Dreams)

"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ships."

"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else." (Delenn and Captain Drake; S3E10, Severed Dreams)

  • edit / "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts! Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts!" (Londo; S3E11, Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
  • edit / "You see, it's like I've always said: 'You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word.' Please, continue..." (Marcus; S3E11, Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
  • edit / "Anything I can do to help?"

"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can't think of a thing."

(Morden and Vir; S3E15, Interludes and Examinations)

  • edit / "I have gotten into the habit of recording important meetings. One never knows when an inconvenient truth would fall between the cracks and vanish." (Londo; S3E11, Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
  • edit / "Despite their strength, the Vorlons are delicate people. They do not react well to change, and they are not very forgiving of mistakes. It's been a long time since one of them died, they are taking it pretty hard." (Lyta; S3E18, Walkabout)
  • edit / "I believe it."

"If Entil'Zha believes it, I believe it."
"I'll be in the car."
(Sinclair, Marcus and Ivanova; S3E16, War Without End, part 1)

  • edit / "It's easy to fight when you've got a lot of ships to work with. The real crunch comes when you are down to almost nothing. Then you either play it safe and you probably lose it all or you take a chance. After everything we've been through with your people, Sheridan was crazy to send our pilots out to fight for your ship. They didn't want to go, they didn't want to get blown out of the sky and leave Babylon 5 defenseless, and they sure as hell didn't want to die. But they did it because Sheridan told them to do it, and because it was right...you don't follow an order because you know for sure it's gonna work out. You do what you are told, because your CO has the moral authority that says you may not come back. But the cause is just, and fair, and necessary. That's why Sheridan is out there, and dammit, that's where the cruiser should be too! It's not Na'kal's decision, G'Kar, he doesn't see the big picture. You do, so in my book, and your book, that makes it your responsibility. Deal with it!" '(Garibaldi to G'Kar; S3E18, Walkabout)
  • edit / "I believe that I have been touched. That I am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good, I can no longer say. All I have ever wanted is to serve our people. I need to see what is before me. If I should escape it, or embrace it. If there is any longer a choice."

"There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's hope. If not..." (Londo and Lady Morella; S3E09, Point of No Return)

  • edit / "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; S3E12, A Late Delivery from Avalon)
  • edit / "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, not at all, 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; S3E20, And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
  • edit / "Den'Zha, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of the same blood, but we are of the same heart." (Neroon to Marcus; S3E19, Grey 17 Is Missing)
  • edit / "You see, John, back a million years ago, there were forces prowling around the galaxy beyond anything that we could understand. And, like anything else, most of them outgrew this little quadrant of the universe and headed off toward greener pastures. Now, two of them stayed behind. Shepherds, you might call them. They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them around, help them evolve into something better."

"One of these was the Vorlons. The other .. was, what you call, the Shadows." (Justin and Morden; S3E22, Z'ha'dum)

  • edit / "In here, Mr. Garibaldi, you can not hide from yourself. Everything out there has only one purpose, to distract us from ourselves, what is truly important. There are no distractions in here. We can learn much from silence." (G'Kar; S3E08, Messages from Earth)
  • edit / "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. Go, go, Zathras take care." (Zathras; S3E16, War Without End, part 1)
  • edit / "Among Minbari, one individual leads, but we move as one. We are at our best when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad for a very long time, a madness that almost consumed your world, until finally, before it was too late, we woke up together. But you, you are alone, you have no one to awaken you from your madness. For this, and nothing else, I feel pity for you." (Delenn; S3E11, Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
  • edit / "I swear, if we'll live through this, someone is going to find their automatic shower-preferences reprogrammed for ice-water." (Ivanova, S3E03, A Day in the Strife)
  • edit / "I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms. Be fair, citizen G'kar." (Ta'Lon to G'Kar; S3E03, A Day in the Strife)
  • edit / "...what kind of head of security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. (Garibaldi to David Endawi; S3E01, Matters of Honor)
  • edit / "It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. .. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments .. of revelation. This had the feeling of both."

"G'Quan 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;S3E22, Z'ha'dum)

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