[Chief Tyrol is worried that like Galactica-Sharon, he could just as well be another Cylon sleeper agent.]
How do you know I'm human?
BCBrother Cavil
Oh, well, maybe because I'm a Cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings.
S2 E19Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1
BCBrother Cavil
Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting, and singing, and mucking about with old half-remembered lines of bad poetry? And you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing.
Are you sure that you're a priest?
[Vice-President (and Presidential candidate) Gaius Baltar, conferring with campaign manager Tom Zarek.]
I'm not sure if you're aware, Tom, but the mob isn't usually in the habit of electing ungodly apostates who denigrate people of faith.
[shaking hands after a presidential debate]
Not your night, I guess.
Why don't you go frak yourself?
S2 E20Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2
[Doctor Cottle, after treating Cally's broken jaw.]
Jaw set nicely. You're done here. I'm kicking you out of here and sending you back to work.
[muffled, with her jaw immobilized] Work? Like this?
You gotta love a woman who can complain even with her jaw wired shut.
[Admiral Adama, remarking to newly-elected President Gaius Baltar that he needs to pay attention to a possible security risk.]
You're not listening.
I don't have to listen. I'm the President.
[Admiral Adama after deciding to jump rather than launch alert fighters when the Cylon fleet arrives at New Caprica.]
We're leaving. But we'll be back.
[To President Baltar as Cylon forces land on New Caprica.] Judgment Day.
[During the Cylons' march through the streets of New Caprica.]
What do you want to do now, Captain?
The same thing we always do. Fight them until we can't.
S3 E1Occupation
I know you're wonderin', so I'll save you the trouble; the eye is gone. They ripped it out onto the floor and showed it to me. Looked like a hard-boiled egg.
Let's review, why we're here shall we? Uh, we're supposed to bring the word of "God" to save the people, right? To save humanity from damnation, by bringing the love of "God" these poor, benighted people.
We're here because the majority of the Cylons felt that the slaughter of mankind had been a mistake.
We're here to find a new way to live in peace. As God wants us to live.
And it's been a fun ride so far. But I want to clarify our objectives. If we're bringing the word of "God", it follows that we should employ any means necessary to do so. Any means. Yes, fear is a key article of faith as I understand it, so perhaps it's time to instill a little more fear into the people's hearts and minds. Let's uh, let's execute Baltar.
What? What?!
That's not gonna happen.
Just because he's your favorite toy shouldn't interfere with the larger issues here.
I think that I have co-operated-
Gaius is with me. Anyone that wants to challenge that will have to deal with me.
Well it doesn't matter. If we killed him at the beginning, it might've worked. But now most humans think of him as a traitor, and might actually cheer his death.
Fine, fine. We don't kill Baltar. We round up the leaders of the insurgency and we execute them, publicly. We round up at random, groups off the street and we execute them, publicly. Send a message that the gloves are coming off, the insurgency stops now or else we start reducing the human population to a more mangeable size. I don't know, say less than a thousand.
We need to stop being butchers.
The entire point of coming here was to start a new way of life. To push past the conflict that seperated us from humans for so long.
And what has it gotten us? It's not like they welcomed us with, with, frak it, never mind. You're all living in a fantasy world, consider the irony in that! Ha ha! Delusional machines! What's the universe gonna come up with next?
Is it really worth it Caprica? Is the love of that man really worth possibly losing all of this?
If you had ever experienced love, you wouldn't have to ask.
[As a Three moves along the lines, congratulating graduates into the New Caprica Police]
LTLieutenant Tucker "Duck" Clellan
[referring to his dead wife] I'll see you soon, Nora. [detonates his explosive vest]
S3 E2Precipice
...You know, we need to figure out who's side we're on.
Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go.
[to Laura] You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins, and other times I think you're just a naive little school teacher. I've sent men on suicide missions in two wars now, and let me tell you something; it don't make a Gods' damned bit of difference whether they're riding in a Viper or walking out onto a parade ground. In the end, they're just as dead. (puffs on cigarette) So take your piety and your moralizing and your high-minded principles and stick 'em some place safe till you're off this rock and you're sitting in your nice, cushy chair on Colonial One again. I've got a war to fight.
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