Lacus Clyne quotes from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

I demand that ZAFT cease firing GENESIS immediately! We've experienced the pain and sorrow of nuclear attacks, yet we are trying to inflict the same suffering on them now? Will anything be made right if we fire it? Or if more innocent men, women and children keep loosing their lives?! Is that justice!? Don't you realize yet what these attacks on each other are giving birth to?! Do we want more sacrifices?!

[referring to the beliefs of others] If you don't trust your enemy, then don't lower your gun.

First, decide. Then just do it. It's the only way to achieve anything of real value in this world, I'm sure.

It's scary when someone closes their mind. That is it. That's all there is. They only see an end.

Power is whatever one makes of it.

If it's my name you want, you may have it. Take it all. But even then... you and I will still be different people, and that cannot be changed. None of us can be anything other than ourselves.

Orb is more important than us. Orb is the only thing left standing on in the way of their plan. If we lose Orb, we lose the world, we must protect it at all cost! So Athrun, Captain Ramius, please go. Now hurry!

(final words of the movie) The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. You are there inside me. Am I there inside you? The joy from your existence within me, the strength from my existence within you. I can’t tell if its bright or dark, because the future cannot be seen at all. But if they have hands to hold, if they have hearts to support each other, the blind pair will be able to proceed forward. For the sake of the hands that connect us, let’s learn about each other to make those hands stronger. I will speak of the multitudes within my heart…all the petty things. That is why I want you to talk to me as well. Of the multitudes of petty things that reside within your heart...

Athrun Zala

What are you talking about, Lacus? Kira's gone. I--

--killed him with your own hands?

Kira Yamato

I'll be all right... because I swore that I'd never cry again.

It's okay to cry. You should cry, while we're still able to.

Kira Yamato

I'm... not sure what I am. Maybe I wasn't meant to be born into this world.

My mother told me something long ago. She said "the world belongs to you, just as much as you belong to the world, for you were born, and that gives you the right to exist."

Kira Yamato

Thanks, Lacus. With this new machine, I can fight properly. The way I know how.

Kira...

Kira Yamato

Wait here. I'll be right back. And then we'll return... back to our friends.

[Upon interrupting Meer's broadcast] Please do not be deceived by the appearance of that person. Hello, my friends, my name is Lacus Clyne.

Gilbert Durandal

Impossible... what is she doing in Orb...?

Don’t come closer! If you move an inch, I'll put out her eyes! Or I could slit her throat! If she’s no longer able to sing, can you still say that you love her?

Kira

Yeah. Even if those eyes can’t see… Even if she loses her voice… Lacus is Lacus!

Kira

And I love everything about her!

Kira…

You don’t love people because they’re needed. You need them because you love them.

Kira!

Kira

Lacus!

Kira

That was so reckless!

(crying and smiling happily at Kira) I love you too…

Orphee, Ingrid. Let’s stop all of this.

(referring to Kira) You chose that man only because he is inferior to you! Is it that comforting to be surrounded and worshipped by your inferiors?! What an egocentric, cold-hearted women! You don’t care even if these fools keep fighting themselves to extinction?

There is no superior or inferior when it comes to lives. Everyone is precious to someone.

Then why am I not loved?

No. Someone is sure to be looking your way. It doesn’t have to be now. It could be someone in the future. (referring to Ingrid) Or someone so close to you that you didn’t notice.

I don’t care about the future! I want you... right now! We were born of the foolishness of humans. They keep speaking of peace and equality but demand that others change for them! They never want to change themselves!

Kira

That’s not true!

Then why does conflict never go away in any day and age?!

They never forget hatred, and even on the brink of extinction, they’re obsessed with immediate self-interest or prejudice and drag each other down! They are all fools!

Orphee!

(referring to the Accords) They need someone to guide them! To end this history of division and bloodshed! That is the meaning behind why we were born!

Humans are not born out of need! They are born from love!

Kira

I’ll choose my future with my own hands!

Impossible… I-I have a duty...

That’s enough, Orphee…

Ingrid…?

Because I know…