Karis Nemik
- Freedom is a pure idea
Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere and even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Karis Nemik
- Try
The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.
Luthen Rael
- I’ve made my mind a sunless space
I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion: I'm damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they've set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.
Luthen Rael
- What is my sacrifice?
What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see. No, the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!
Daphne Bridgerton
- Worthy of Love
Just because something is not perfect does not make it any less worthy of love. Your father made you believe otherwise. He made you believe that you needed to be without fault in order to be loved, but he was wrong. Should you need any proof of the matter than look just here. I am tired of pretending, and I cannot continue acting as if I do not love you, because I do.
Daphne Bridgerton
- You can choose
I love all of you. Even the parts that you believe that are too dark and too shameful. Every scar. Every flaw. Every imperfection. I love you. You may think you are too damaged and too broken to ever allow yourself to be happy, but you can choose differently, Simon. You can choose to love me as much as I love you. That should not be up to anyone else. That cannot be up to anyone else. That can only be up to you.
Captain Gabriel Lorca - ST:Discovery
- Context is for kings
I did choose you, but not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the right thing over what was sanctioned, even at great cost to yourself. And that is the kind of thinking that wins wars. The kind of thinking I need next to me. Universal law is for lackeys. Context... is for kings.
Captain Pike - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- The future's what we make it
Perhaps somewhere all your ends are written as indelibly as mine, but I chose to believe that your destinies are still your own. Maybe that's why I'm here, to remind you of the power of possibility. Maybe that's the good in seeing my future, that I might remind you that right up until the very end life is to be worn gloriously. Because until our last moment, the future's what we make it.
Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
- The same eyes
They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked out at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just the continual wrenching of experience.
Garak
- In the Pale Moonlight - All it cost
If your conscience is bothering you, then you should soothe it with the knowledge that you may have just saved the entire Alpha Quadrant. And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain.
Benjamin Sisko
- In the Pale Moonlight - The most damning thing
I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.
Secondhand Lions
- The Speech
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage, and virtue mean everything. That power and money, money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil, and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. Doesn't matter if it's true or not, you see. A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in. Got that?
Second Hand Lions
- Hub McCann
I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two world wars, and countless smaller ones on three continents. I've led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile and tribes of natives no white men had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman... With a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand! That's who I am.
Red Dwarf - Justice
- Kryten's Defense of Rimmer
Who would allow this man, this joke of a man, this man who could not outwit a used tea bag, to be in a position where he might endanger the entire crew? Who? Only a yoghurt. This man is not guilty of manslaughter, he is only guilty of being Arnold J. Rimmer. That is his crime; it is also his punishment. The defense rests.
Doctor Who - The Zygon Inversion
- Not on my watch
This is not a war. I've fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine. And when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count. And you know what you do with all of that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... 'til it burns your hand. And you say this, "No one else will ever have to live like this! No one else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch!"
Doctor Who - The Zygon Inversion
- Sit Down and Talk
This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought, right there in front of you! Because it's always the same, when you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who is going to die. You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken, how many lives shattered, how much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning - SIT DOWN AND TALK!
Doctor Who
- Good things and bad things.
I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey, the good things don't always soften the bad things. But, vice versa... the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. And if you look carefully, maybe we did indeed make a couple of little changes.
Doctor Who
- The Pandorica Opens
Come on! Look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh and something else - I don't have ANYTHING. TO. LOSE. So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight; just remember who is standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then... AND THEN... do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.
Doctor Who - The Rings of Akhaten
I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand, and I know things; secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze! So come on then! Take it! Take it all baby! Have it! You have it all!
Doctor Who - The Rings of Akhaten
So, so... come on then, take mine. Take my memories. But I hope you've got a big appetite. Because I've lived a long life, and I've seen a few things. I walked away from the last great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the Universe, and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained; no time, no space, just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man!
