The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. It speaks in the language of hope. It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength, and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us. And the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. It is the small, still voice that says we are One. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it.
Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness.
If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us. Citizen G'Kar: Do you want to be president? Captain John Sheridan: Yes. Citizen G'Kar: Then put your hand on the book and say I do. Captain John Sheridan: I do. Citizen G'Kar: Good, let's eat! We all believe in something greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance.
Oh, why does the universe hate me? It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.
Narns, Humans, Centauri Garibaldi, I have been on this station long enough to know that you don't ask leading questions unless you already know the answers. So, why don't we just pretend I've lied about it, you've caught me in your web of insufferable logic, and cut to the point. I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged.
Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying. We are all the sum of our tears.
Too little and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there; too much, the best of us is washed away. Londo: I was I had responsibilities. I've had responsibilities for as long as I can remember. G'Kar: Ah. That explains a great deal. Londo: Really? And what exactly does it explain, G'Kar? G'Kar: I spent my years in one shelter after another. But sooner or later, I was able to leave the shelter and walk out into the daylight.
You do not have that luxury. You carry your shelter with you You didn't grow up. You grew old. When I risked, I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. They want me to show them another way. What if I show them the wrong way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson but because of the teacher?
I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this? Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism.
To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride maan and then to go on telling others 'I did it myself', is known as pride with my-ness abhiman. When everything around you seems conspiring to tear out your heart and your mind, or show you that there is nothing but power and survival, look up there, Kar, at the moon in the giant sky.
Hold it as a truth, beyond what we are too blind or ignorant to see all around us. Hold it like love, Kar, and Remember me. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. Your speech, if God give you the friendship of Nature, From the rose and tulip's long silence weave The way of the hermit, not fortune, is mine; Sell not your soul!
In a beggar's rags shine. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually. Is that why he's hot and bothered for Arcadia here? She was well aware that honesty wasn't one of my strong suits. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there.
Too much, the best of us is washed away. It was a offensive, you were offensive, she was offended, he was offended. This sweater was offended, Rose was offended, Dave was offended. I was completely offended. See how offensive everything is. Everything is triggers and triggers, I'm a trigger. The trigger is stupid, just like the person who made them.
I might be very offensive, for always interrupting someone, and complain about triggers. Instead of leaping across the room to snap Mollari's neck, G'Kar calmly rose and addressed the council in one of his most memorable lines in the history of the series. No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the 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 can not stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. In exchange for G'Kar's cooperation for toning down these activities, Sheridan was able to pressure the Centauri into releasing the Narn colonists on Quadrant He maintained control of the Narn aboard Babylon 5 to ensure that the others would be more sympathetic to their plight.
He also helped expose a plot to use Babylon 5 as a Centauri munitions drop point. Also, with help from Michael Garibaldi, he was able to establish a safe location for smuggling weapons into Narn and its colonies. G'kar spent the later part of the year as well as early being obsessed with avenging his people against the Centauri in general, and Mollari in particular. He maintained the steady flow of smuggled weapons onto Narn.
As the last of the Kha'Ri still free, G'Kar inspired those on his homeworld to rise up and resist their would-be invaders. His authority was challenged, at one point, by a fellow Narn, Na'Far, who was appointed by the Centauri as the new official ambassador of the Regime to Babylon 5.
However, Na'Far did not only fail, but his personal bodyguard, Ta'Lon whom Sheridan had saved on a Streib ship , became G'Kar's most avid follower and confidant. G'Kar intended to use this weapon to fight the Centauri, but the effects on Narn physiology were unknown; the Narns had no surviving heritage of telepaths. In his vision, G'Kar was told to let go of his hatred and serve a higher cause — the survival of his race and of everyone. To achieve this, he, and the Narns, had to become willing to sacrifice themselves.
As the G'Quan apparition puts it: What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the cycle of death toward something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can… We are fighting to save one another, we must realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of us will be saved.
And the Narn will be only a memory. G'Kar was arrested for this attack and pleaded guilty. He allowed himself to be placed in Babylon 5's brig, where he dedicated himself to meditating on his revelation, eventually writing down his thoughts and observations.
He was released early, due to the fighting between Earth forces and Babylon 5. He promised to assist the humans — and delivered, providing Babylon 5 with a Narn security force to replace those soldiers who remained loyal to Earth. There he was presented as a gift to Londo Mollari by Emperor Cartagia.
However, Cartagia first decided to torture G'Kar. He endured much and was even tortured by Cartagia himself, but G'Kar refused to give him the satisfaction of hearing him cry out in pain. He revealed this to Londo and Vir; Mollari then explained if he would not scream soon G'Kar would most definitely die.
This refusal to scream under torture has been shown previously during Season 1 when G'kar was being tortured with paingivers by a Narn assassin. This shows G'Kar's refusal to give his torturers the satisfaction of hearing him scream because that is a sign of both weakness and submission and exemplifies G'Kar's great pride.
After hearing this Londo and Vir decided to act fast as they knew they would need G'Kar's help to kill Cartagia. Mollari approached G'Kar in secret and explained that Cartagia was sadistic and insane, and that the fate of both the Narn and Centauri people depended on his removal from the throne. Mollari offered a deal — if G'Kar would assist by providing a distraction at the proper moment, Mollari himself would assassinate the mad emperor, and then use his influence to free him.
Assuming G'Kar would agree, Mollari turned to leave. G'Kar replied by saying that Mollari didn't ask the price, and that he would only agree to it if Mollari would use his influence to free Narn. Mollari pointed out that G'Kar was in no position to make demands. He ordered a soldier to whip him with an energy whip that would kill any Narn with forty strokes and stated that the whipping would not stop until he heard the scream he so much wanted. G'Kar held until the last whip stroke, and only screamed as it was necessary to save his people.
But before they left Cartagia ordered a guard to gouge one of G'Kar's eyes out, as he didn't like how he looked at him. Rather significantly, the number of whiplashes G'Kar received was 39 — the same number that Pilate ordered Jesus to be given. When they arrived at Narn they made preparations for the assassination and it succeeded, albeit with Mollari's aide Vir Cotto somewhat inadvertently killing Cartagia.
Mollari kept his word and freed both G'Kar and the Narn people. The Narn then offered G'Kar the chance to rule the planet, which he flatly refused in favor of a new Kha'Ri that he insisted must be formed, and citing the fact that he did not endure so much pain and personal suffering to remove one tyrant from his planet, only to become one himself.
Shortly after returning to Babylon 5, he is visited by Garibaldi , who was genuinely apologetic for G'Kar having to endure so much torture, simply for wanting to look for him. G'Kar explained that Garibaldi was one of the few non- Narn friends he had, and far from being angry, he was actually quite grateful. In doing so, G'Kar said he was put in precisely the right place at precisely the right time to free his people, something which would never have happened, had Garibaldi not been kidnapped in the first place.
Declaration of Principles[ edit ] Upon his return to Babylon 5, he resumed his role as Narn Ambassador, and was instrumental in the founding of the Interstellar Alliance. G'Kar was a member of that organization's advisory council, and wrote the Declaration of Principles.
A later draft of these principles read as follows: The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. It speaks in the language of hope; It speaks in the language of trust; It speaks in the language of strength, and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always, it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us, And the voice of our inheritors, waiting to be born. It is the small, still voice that says: We are one.
No matter the blood; No matter the skin; No matter the world; No matter the star; We are one. No matter the pain; No matter the darkness; No matter the loss; No matter the fear; We are one. Here, gathered together in common cause.
The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search - who does not bring a lantern - sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe - God looks astonishingly like we do - or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness.
If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us. G'Kar : 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. Citizen G'Kar : The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements. Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. Citizen G'Kar : [to Londo after they discover the Centauri are still building warships during peace time] Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change.
I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words, "Too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space. Citizen G'Kar : I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged.
Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. Similarly, someone who does not search — who does not bring a lantern — sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us.
Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe — God looks astonishingly like we do — or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us.