Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[alpha128]

"So...how long you figure they've been married?"

"G'kar, if you were married to Londo Mollari, we'd all be concerned."

[Jan]

"Mollari. Understand that I can never forgive your people for what they did to my world. My people can never forgive your people. But I can forgive you."

"So...how long you figure they've been married?"

[alpha128]

"It's easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes that you overcompensate and make new ones. And then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going around and around. No way out and no where to go."

"Mollari. Understand that I can never forgive your people for what they did to my world. My people can never forgive your people. But I can forgive you."

[AstroBoy]

""We were wrong. We knew we were wrong when we were there, and when we left, but we never said it. The hatred between our people can never end until someone is willing to say I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make it right again, to atone for our actions.""

"It's easier not to want forgiveness or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes that you overcompensate and make new ones. And then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going around and around. No way out and no where to go."

[Jan]

"...for G'Kar and his people; they will do all that they can to destroy us, until the universe itself decays and collapses. If the Narns all stood together in one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could fly across dozens of light-years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's how much they hate us."

""We were wrong. We knew we were wrong when we were there, and when we left, but we never said it. The hatred between our people can never end until someone is willing to say I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make it right again, to atone for our actions.""

[alpha128]

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. Oh, no, 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.

"...for G'Kar and his people; they will do all that they can to destroy us, until the universe itself decays and collapses. If the Narns all stood together in one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could fly across dozens of light-years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's how much they hate us."

[Kraig]

"Medlab's quiet these days. The League of non-aligned worlds has broken up and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to prepare for the next stage of war. We know the enemy is gonna strike back. Rumour has it that this time's gonna be the last time. This time they're gonna end it. All we can do now is wait for the other shoe to drop or try and find something useful to do before the end. Right now, short of hand holding, or sympathetic ear, I can't think of one damn thing."

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. Oh, no, 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.

[AstroBoy]

"Don't give away the homeworld."

"Medlab's quiet these days. The League of non-aligned worlds has broken up and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to prepare for the next stage of war. We know the enemy is gonna strike back. Rumour has it that this time's gonna be the last time. This time they're gonna end it. All we can do now is wait for the other shoe to drop or try and find something useful to do before the end. Right now, short of hand holding, or sympathetic ear, I can't think of one damn thing."

[alpha128]

"Both sides risked much, and suffered greatly. Brave men and women on both sides lost their lives. But in the end, the battle they fought was the same: to preserve and protect an Earth they could proudly call home."

"Don't give away the homeworld."

[Jan]

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

"Both sides risked much, and suffered greatly. Brave men and women on both sides lost their lives. But in the end, the battle they fought was the same: to preserve and protect an Earth they could proudly call home."

[alpha128]

"The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It's to create the peace. And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our problems and build a better future, and that, to me, is the key issue. See, in the last few years .. we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you .. you start looking at your feet. We have to make people .. lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, 'Make my life have meaning.' And to our inheritors before us saying, 'Create the world we will live in.' I mean, we're not just holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity."

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

[AstroBoy]

"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required."

"The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It's to create the peace. And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our problems and build a better future, and that, to me, is the key issue. See, in the last few years .. we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you .. you start looking at your feet. We have to make people .. lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, 'Make my life have meaning.' And to our inheritors before us saying, 'Create the world we will live in.' I mean, we're not just holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity."

[alpha128]

I've been building this piece of history for the last five years scrounging parts wherever I could. If I could just figure out where they go. I won this manual in a blackjack game, but it's in Japanese.

"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required."

[Kraig]

"We did what we did because it was right, not to be remembered. History will attend to itself. It always does."

I've been building this piece of history for the last five years scrounging parts wherever I could. If I could just figure out where they go. I won this manual in a blackjack game, but it's in Japanese.

[Jan]

"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 B5 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."

"We did what we did because it was right, not to be remembered. History will attend to itself. It always does."