“In the Hands of the Prophets” quotes from Deep Space Nine

Kira Nerys

But she's teaching a fundamentally different philosophy—

I'm not teaching any "philosophy." What I'm trying to teach is pure science.

Kira Nerys

Some might say pure science taught without a spiritual context is a philosophy, Mrs O'Brien.

Odo

What do you know about the murder of Ensign Aquino?

Quark

You wound me. All these years together, I thought you knew me. Odo, I am not a killer!

Odo

No, but most of your friends are.

Quark

True, and I would gladly sell one of them to you if I could. But unfortunately, none of them have taken credit for the death of the Starfleet officer.

Odo

Keep your ears open.

Quark

Are you kidding? That's the Seventh Rule of Acquisition.

You live without a soul, Commander. You and your Federation exist in a universe of darkness and you would drag us in there with you. But we will not go.

Sisko

You have just made your first mistake, Vedek.

Have I?

Sisko

The Bajorans who have lived with us on this station, who have worked with us for months, who helped us move this station to protect the wormhole, who joined us to explore the Gamma Quadrant, who have begun to build the future of Bajor with us—these people know that we are neither the enemy nor the devil. We don't always agree. We have some damn good fights, in fact. But we always come away from them with a little better understanding and appreciation of the other. You won't succeed here. The school will reopen. And when your rhetoric gets old, the Bajoran parents will bring their children back.

Kira

Commander, I heard what you said to Vedek Winn at the school. I just wanted you to know you were right what you said about the Bajorans, at least about me. I don't think you're the devil.

Sisko

Maybe we have made some progress after all.