Babylon Quotes

• Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

  Bill Mumy

  Years, Style, Ambitious

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• The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

  Linda Goodman

  Stars, Astrology, Shining

  Linda Goodman (1968). “Sun signs”

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Past, Space

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• London is a modern Babylon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  London, Modern

  'Tancred' (1847) bk. 5, ch. 5

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• The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Fall, People

  "Net Surf", www.wired.com. December 1, 1995.

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Forever, Population, Arms

  "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". Babylon 5 (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1994-1998.

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• We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Art, Dreamer, Tools

  "Fictional character: Elric". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("The Geometry of Shadows", 1994), www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Eye

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Sight, Flames, Class

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Basketball, Difficulty, Occasions

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

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• I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Running, Fun, Babylon 5

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• It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  War, Age, Dawn

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994 - 1998.

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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, War, Past

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• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Power Of Love, Greater Power

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Past, Lasts, Moments

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• 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 and 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.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• I was doing Babylon 5 season two and I was in all 22 episodes of that.

  Bill Mumy

  Two, Babylon 5, Episodes

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• The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

  Jeremiah

  Lord, Prophet, Raised

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• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

  Ellen G. White

  Confusion, Church, World

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 1. Patriarchs and Prophets—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Men, Garden

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1819) act 1, l. 191

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• The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

  Isaac Newton

  Years, Vision, Rams

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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• After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon

  George Q. Cannon

  Jesus, Organization, Two

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• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Babylon 5, Chains

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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