Babylon 5

Londo: What happened to the Narn homeworld, you would not want the same to happen to your own. Ask G'Kar...

Londo (negotiating territory with the Drazi): We want a buffer zone. We told you that when this all started. If you had listened then we could have avoided considerable bloodshed. Lennier: Ambassador Mollari, what would you consider a reasonable buffer zone? Londo: The seven colony worlds in that particular quadrant. Vizak: You asked for only two when this began! Londo: Yes, and if you had been willing to give us two at that time, we would've agreed to it. But since then we have spent a great deal of time and money to secure that area. We now require more!

Sheridan (to Bester): Mr Bester, so good to see you again. I'd like to introduce you to my associates. These are Minbari telepaths. Nothing like a level playing field to ruin a Psi Cop's day, am I right, Mr Bester?

Vir: It's a Minbari ceremonial coat of welcome. They gave it to me when I arrived to take over the diplomatic mission. I've had the sleeves shortened. Do you like it? Londo: Yes, it's very nice. Wear it when you're there, not here! You're a Centauri, remember?

Sheridan: This isn't disloyalty, or an attack on the office of the President. There is a difference between the position and the person who's occupying it at the moment. (to the store owner): Sir, go on back to your shop and if this happens again, you call me. Store owner: Thank you, Captain. (to the Nightwatch guard) : Aren't you late for a Bund meeting or something?

Bester: I am here to save your butts. Next time show a little gratitude. Franklin [Hinting on their last conversation about wounding Bester] : On the other hand, maybe wounding him isn't such a bad idea after all.

Bester: We learned some interesting things about Ms. Winters in the course of her debriefing and dissect ... [ pause ] ... that is, examination.

Kosh [as G'Lan]: You have the opportunity here, and now to choose to become something greater and nobler and more different than you have been before. The Universe does not offer such chances often, G'Kar. G'Kar: Why now? Why not earlier? All this time where have you been? Kosh [as G'Lan]: I have always been here.

Ivanova: Everyone clear the command deck now! I have to run a maintenance routine. It will take about ten minutes. Get some tea or something.

Bester: I'm in pursuit of an individual who is a danger to your station, Earth and the Psi Corps. Ivanova: Well, that's two legitimate things to worry about.

Bester: You couldn't have gotten here two minutes earlier. Psi Cop: I tried to send to you, but I couldn't get through. Bester: Doesn't matter. We'll finish our business here later. You know, I said all along this whole dust idea wasn't going to work. We spent five years developing the stuff, tying it into latent genes, and it hasn't produced one telepath of acceptable strength among the normal population. Oh, well. At least we got it out of the hands of aliens and back among the humans where it belongs.

Narn: What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There's nothing. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the cycle of death toward something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can. G'Kar: I don't understand. Narn: Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another, we must realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory.

Narn: We are a dying people, G'Kar. So are the Centauri. Obsessed with each other's death until death is all we can see, and death is all we deserve.

G'Kar: Who are you? Father: I am ... who I have always been.

G'Kar: Who would believe it? The great and powerful Londo Mollari got his job because no one else was stupid enough to take it.

Bester: If I had my talent working, I could've warned you when he was coming. Garibaldi: And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play piñata. I still think I should've gone straight to G'Kar. Bester: We have no evidence that he made the sale yet. Why annoy the Narn without cause if we are wrong? Shut off the problem at the source and the rest attends to itself. A piñata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright and cheerful full of toys and candy for young children. Thank you! That makes me feel.. much better about our relationship.

Vir: Londo, are you deliberately trying to drive me insane? Londo: The universe is already mad, anything else would be redundant.

Vir: Londo, the Minbari are very lovely people, interested in culture, and art ... Londo: Decadent, and soft. Probably out to impose their views on everyone else. Vir: But their cities are thousands of years old. Londo: The lack of new construction is a sure sign of a faltering economy. This could make them very aggressive. Vir: They are deeply spiritual people, Londo. Londo: That you can leave in. It always scares people.

Garibaldi: I thought the sleepers keep you from scanning anyone. Bester: That's right. Garibaldi: So, how did you know he was lying? Bester: Well, the odds were good that he was lying about something. Liars are always afraid that somebody is going to see through them. So, I just provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain's opinions notwithstanding, the badge and a uniform do have certain.. advantages. Garibaldi: Like an intimidation? Bester: Absolutely. Just like ... your badge and ... your uniform.

Bester: My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all that stands between you and the abyss.

Lindstrom: But as far as I know, there are no Narn telepaths. You may not even carry the gene. G'Kar: There are no Narn telepaths now. But once, long ago, there were. Lindstrom: Yeah. What happened to them? G'Kar: They and their families were exterminated. The telepath gene has never been strong enough in the survivors to breed a natural telepath.

Lennier: A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another.

Delenn: One is foolish, the other frightened. Vir: Telling which one is which, that's the hard part.

Bester: I'm here to save your butts. Next time, show a little gratitude.

Bester: Far be it from me to try and talk you out of your paranoia, Captain. You choose not to trust me. Well, that's sad, and unfortunate. But unlike the rest of you, I have no intention of letting it get into the way of my work. Doctor. Trust, Captain. You should try it some time.

Ivanova: He's too strong. They're always too strong. Damn it, John. There's always too many of them and not enough of us. What am I supposed to do? Sheridan: Fight them without becoming them.