Just so you know, I will use Italicized text to denote that the
source is from a book or magazine and I will use Underlined text to
denote that the source is from a TV show or movie

Fictional quotes

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms
forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against that power governments, tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri
learned this lesson once, we will teach it to them again. Though it take a
thousand years, we will be free!"

Narn Ambassador G'Kar, Babylon 5 Season 2 Episode: "The Long
Twilight Struggle"

"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
principalites, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh
is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this paril 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."

Narn Prophet and Mindwalker: G'Quan Babylon 5: The Passing of the
Techno-mages (book III): Invoking Darknes also from Babylon 5 episode: "Za'Ha'Dum"

"Greatness is never apreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tollerate greatness in our midst, we do all that we can to destroy it."

Lady Morella Babylon 5 Season 3

"It was the end of the Earth year 2259, and the War was upon us. As
anticipated, a few days after the Earth/Centuari treaty was anounced the
Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned worlds. And there
was another war brewing closer to home, whos personal cost was more than many of
us could imagine. We came to this place because Babylon 5 was our last, best
hope for peace. By the end of 2259 we knew that it had failed. But in so doing
it became something greater. As the war expanded it became our last best hope
for Victory, because sometimes 'peace' is another word for 'surrender'
and because secrets have a way of getting out."

Commander Susan Ivonova, Babylon 5 Season 2 Episode: "The Fall of
Night"

"Your death will have a meaning if it comes while you're in fullest persuit of your heart"

Sech Turval, Babylon 5 Season 5

"The Jarno plants are coming into bloom, five days of flowering, and then they're gone. A little like life I supose. You really should see it!"

Lord Virini, Babylon 5 Season 4

Londo: "The Centaurum met today to choose a new emperor..."

Lord Durini: "A very good idea! The royal bloodline isn't what it used to be, too much intermarrying I suppose. I always say when you reduce a family tree to a family bush you just can't hide as much beneath it!"

Prime Minister Londo Mollari and Regent Virini, Babylon 5 Season 4

Commander Sinclair: "I need you to do me a favor Michael"

Security Cheif Garibaldi: "Anything, just give me a name and I'll lean on him!"

Commander Sinclair: *laughs* "Not that kind of job"

Commander Jeffery Sinclair and Security Cheif Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5 First Season, last episode: "Chrystlis"

"If the primates we evolved from knew that some day politicians would arise from the gene pool, they would have stayed in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea!"

Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5 Season 2 Episode: "A Distant Star"

"Chaos is the proper state of being, the state in which all impulse is freed
to act. Chaos is the way to strength. Chaos is the engine powering life.
Chaos finds its fullest expression in times of war. In war all are put to the
test. In war those unfit are exterminated. Only in bloodshed can true progress
be made, can promise be realized. In war we are victorious, and through war
true perfection will be realized."

A sign on Z'ha'dum, Homeworld of the Shadows. Babylon 5: The Passing of
the Techno-mages (book III): Invoking Darknes

"You seek understanding...then listen to the music, not the song"

Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5 Season 1

"What is need, compared to the path?"

Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek Babylon 5 Season 1

"A stroke of the brush, does not gaurentee art from the bristles"

Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5Season 1

"You are not ready for immortality" (on destroying a veritable fountain of youth before the other races could use it)

Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek Babylon 5 Season 1

"Look, I'm gettin the hell out of here before anyone else shows up. With my luck it'll be the second coming, and I'm still three commandments behind on penance." (after two major characters returned to Babylon 5 and just before an Elvis convention arrives)

Security Cheif Zach Allen, Babylon 5 Season 4

"Its like my Grandpa used to say, 'Nuke 'm till they glow then shoot 'em in
the dark'"

bar denizen, Babylon 5 Season 2

"Do not try the patience of Wizards, for they are subtle and quike to
anger"

Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring and
later by Elric, Babylon 5

"I fear many things...my death however, is some one else's concern"

Jedi Master Jai Maruk

"Die'n ain't much of a live'n, boy"

Jose Wales, The Outlaw Jose Wales

Non-fictional Quotes

"Though we are not now of that strength
Which in old days moved earth and heaven
That which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate
But strong in will
To strive, to seek
To find, and not to yield."

Alfred Tenison

"Any government which can provide for all of its citizens needs can take away all of its citizens rights."

Thomas Jefferson

"Know thy-self"

Socrates

"When in doubt, Nuke 'em"

Bruce Boxleitner: about his character John Sheridan on Babylon 5, who uses nukes at least four times in the show to solve problems

"Man can hardly recognize the devils of his own creation"

ALbert Schweitzer

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

"All that is certain, is that nothing is certain"

Michel de Montaigne

"Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country."

Michel de Montaigne

"Any particular dogma, whatever it may be, whether it is advanced on the authority of the Scritpures, or whatever may be its origens, is to be regaurded as false if it clashes with the clear and definate of the natural understanding [reason]"

Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite"

Winston Churchill

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we disarm it ourselves."

Joseph Stalin

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

Joseph Stalin

"There are only two forces in the world. The sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

Napoleon Bonaparte

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace."

Abraham Lincoln

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

"Safe-gaurding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

Kahlil Gibran. The Voice of the Poet

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

John Wayne

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

Plato

"He who conquers endures"

Persius

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

A. Sachs

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"

Clarence Darrow

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

George Bernard Shaw

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

Oscar Wilde

"This England never did, nor ever shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."

William Shakespeare

"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

Bertrand Russell

"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."

Senator Fred Thompson

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either."

Jewish Proverb

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Mark Twain

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

Joseph Heller Catch 22

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."

Joseph Heller Catch-22

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

Ernest Benn

"It's better to fight for something than to live for nothing"

General George S. Patton

"You only know the true meaning of peace through war"

Kosovar

"I have never advocated war, except as a means of achieving peace"

Ulysses S. Grant

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Will Rogers

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

Henry Cate VII

"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."

Larry Hardiman

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

Unknown

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

Ronald Reagan

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Isaac Asimov

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

George Orwell

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

"Live as brave men, and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts"

Cicero

"Those aren't actual bagpipes he's playing in the backround, those are a
smaller version from Ireland which is more melodic. Bagpipes tend to sound like
scalded cats"

Mel Gibson, during his commentary on Braveheart

"If I must choose between rightousnes and peace, I choose rightousnes"

Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States of
America

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" (Referring to the simultanious sinking of two of his battle cruisers during the Battle of Jutland)

Admiral Sir David Beatty

P. J. O'Rourke

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."

Ambrose Bierce Quotes, from The Devil's Dictionary

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Einstein Quotes

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

My Quotes

"you show me an eastern Europian communist government and I'll show you an
oppressive dictatorial regime supported by the Imperialist USSR"

"Just because you've hit rock bottom, doesn't mean you can't start
digging"

Whenever some one says 'Well that's the pot calling the kettle black' I have to think to myself "That doesn't make the kettle any less black"