#source: foundation

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foundation quotes - 1.07, mysteries and martyrs onward we go. man this one was hard to pare down to a reasonable number. change pronouns and names as needed.

in other words, you abandoned your own people.

if we spread out and move with control, we should be invisible to them.

swallow your grief, [name]. we have no time for it now.

i'm not familiar with that term, motherless atrocity that i am.

i wonder what [name] would say if she were made aware of that.

it's not in my interest to publicize your true nature.

this was a staggering betrayal, [name].

as far as i understood it, you are incapable of disloyalty.

you know just how transformative the journey can be… and how the body will suffer.

all very noble deaths, i'm sure.

i can appreciate an aggressive early play.

we're misunderstanding each other here, [name].

i believe the dynasty will be the ruin of us all.

you don't even remotely comprehend what my familial line has accomplished.

you are the reverberations of a dead man's ego, by nature blind to all that you lack.

the soulless creature cannot recognize itself.

if that is truly what you believe, i am sorry. you will spend your life shouting into the void.

i'm not surprised it's left you confused. it's about something much greater than you.

not you, [name]. you're too dangerous unfettered. hold out your hands.

if we're unlucky, we suffer much longer deaths.

if she wants to invoke something greater than me, i'll do the same.

if they start pulling that thread, it all comes undone.

every moment of my life is a test.

you've lived every moment of your life with people watching you.

what have you done to yourself, [name]?

we're running out of time. we need to make a move. now.

do it, [name]. or we all die for nothing.

the empire won't have a chance to run, just like my people did not.

all of [place] will be nothing but a heap of poisonous ash, all its evils rendered silent underneath it.

we will deliver that justice to them, [name]. we will die to bring the empire to its knees.

gods are impervious to knives.

that's a fancy way of saying you lied.

he loved you. that wasn't a lie.

i am so tired of this, you deciding what i need to know when i need to know it.

you're too smart to play the victim, [name].

fine. we're both hypocrites.

i liked you better when you were dying.

i could feel it in the air. a… a sense of doom. i just… i had a feeling.

we're all different, [name]. and if you don't know what it is, i urge you to figure it out before someone else does and uses it against you.

i think i can feel the future.

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Jack Dalton: “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

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foundation quotes - 1.06, death and the maiden ah yes, the episode that made me cry. or like... one of them. change pronouns and names as needed.

i didn't believe the stories until i met him.

the search for meaning is not always about the answer.

at every point in our lives, we have the power to choose our own path.

she's only just pulled herself out from the rubble.

ready to meet the clamoring masses?

i'm afraid whatever impurities i may harbor will have to remain hidden.

i don't think anyone with pure intentions would wheedle their way on to my welcoming committee.

you're alive because you're useful to us.

you're already dead. you just don't know it yet.

we're an army of ghosts.

what you've done is an act of war.

i shot one leg. your husband has another.

i thought you were trying to poison me.

foolish attempt to control the uncontrollable.

when i summon you, i expect you to arrive promptly.

consider it the rare opportunity for you to exercise your independence.

give me the day, and i'll mold that luck into skill.

you can save all that pillow talk for later.

what do you mean, we're not going back?

this is wild work, and i'm not having your blood on my hands.

i expected the clamoring masses upon my arrival, but instead i'm greeted by a heretic.

it is a sad occasion, but also a hopeful one.

it will not take much to tip things in a less desirable fashion.

and the food… oh, my god. the finest everything.

it was built on a mountain of lies and deception.

you know, i couldn't make heads or tails of anything he was saying.

we need to throw a very large wrench into the works.

you are definitely your mother's daughter.

he didn't touch me. he just talked.

there's only one scenario in which you leave as planned, and that's the one in which it becomes impossible for you to remain.

and we are here now, an entire galaxy pivoting around the actions of an individual. you.

open your fists, [name]. don't fight the wind.

you should see the view from up here.

that's my secret. and now you know it. now what do i do?

i don't care about the crisis. all i care about is making [name] pay.

even a soul that appeared holy four hundred years ago would not be holy today.

our lives in these bodies may be brief, but our souls are endless.

this will not always be your life, but it is your life now.

change it back. make her change it back!

if you fail to follow our orders, weigh your fate against those of your loved ones and act accordingly.

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foundation quotes - 1.04, barbarians at the gate [begins chanting] phara keaen phara keaen phara keaen phara keaen ph [is dragged offstage]. change pronouns and names as needed.

belief is a powerful weapon.

empires govern worldly concerns, but what comes after?

faith is a sword forged in the fires of the infinite.

is it true? no one's allowed to touch you?

is she suicidal? who is this woman to question our primacy?

you should leave. before the empire catches wind of this.

my people do not fear the empire.

we've risked everything, [name].

they won't defend us. we need to do it ourselves.

violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

calls herself [name]. beyond that, nothing about her story adds up.

i can't tell if she's lying or if she's just not telling the truth.

i'm giving you a chance to give better answers.

thought i smelled a whiff of [place] on you.

repeated luck is never luck.

there's a deadness inside her. she wants to die. she wants everyone to die.

what she said when she broke, did you understand any of it?

the businesses of empire is a cascade of competing priorities.

[name] is long dead. murdered by his protégé, no less.

thanks to you, we are now staring down the barrel of a genuine diplomatic crisis.

you have achieved elaborate suicide for us all.

your women are so much sharper than your men.

"barbarians." just a convenient slur for anyone not like you.

they left us all here to die. your people and mine. we're just dying at different speeds.

a weapon's only as good as the man who's wielding it.

my job is to eliminate problems.

i could do worse to you. much worse.

what is the likelihood that it's all true? every prophecy?

in the twilight of a man's life, when his biography is nearly complete, he grows desperate to know the measure of his days.

it's remarkable how self-reinforcing their results are.

our protocols have made us complacent.

do you remember what you said? i do. like it was yesterday.

i was scared, and i dared say so. well, i'm not scared anymore.

two worlds were incinerated with not a care to innocence or consequence.

you have bequeathed me an empire rent by impulsive action.

i would save our legacy.

you are haunted by the ghost of a man long dead.

you can't play chess with someone who's willing to set the board on fire.

done a lot of foolish things in my life, [name]. sticking by your side is not one of them.

remember my promise, [name]? razing your city to the ground?

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foundation quotes - 1.05, upon awakening shorter one because a lot of this episode was just gaal talking in math. change pronouns and names as needed.

[name] said there were lights in the windows last night.

you look like your father now.

so pious. hunting for heretics.

what do you deem it, [name]? you always had a sharp mind.

when a planet wants you dead, you die.

furthering knowledge is the most noble work of humankind.

all things have a cycle. after destruction, rebirth.

knowledge gives us ways to survive the destruction till the rebirth arrives.

i'm not on your side. i'm not a kindred soul.

it is ingenious, elegant and true.

hold your ground. they're just trying to rattle you.

she comes to destroy, no matter the cost.

[name]'s different. her game is over. no next move, only a last one.

you may have us outgunned, but you're desperate. scared. and desperate people make mistakes.

i'll be damned. they actually showed up.

i strongly advise you stay clear until we can determine why they want you here.

your daughter may be willing to defy the empire based on speculations, [name], but i am not.

the man loved you like a son.

did [name] put you up to it?

do you even understand what it is you've done?

i'm going to outsmart you, you stupid ship.

she has your mother.

shut up, or we'll both be orphans!

i understand what it is like to lose everything. to watch your whole life burn. i really do.

the empire took everything from me. and now we take everything from them.

because of what your prophet said, my whole world burned.

if you can see the sky, you are trespassing on his eminence's sovereign territory.

does it hurt any less? your brother, your family?

you know what, i thought i might feel empty. but i think it does hurt less.

[place] is [name]'s home. they think i killed him.

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foundation quotes - 1.03, the mathematician's ghost thirty episodes of this is gonna be a lot, huh. change pronouns and names as needed.

every world has ghosts, and every house is haunted by them.

i shouldn't take anything for granted.

i'm loyal to the empire.

will the empire be loyal to you?

you're becoming sentimental, verging on maudlin.

your continuity is assured.

how you spend this last day is up to you.

it will be a privilege to wear it at my ascension.

we have broken the barbarians, cast them adrift.

what would you have us say that you haven't said?

i wonder if there's a way to save it.

let us not destroy the last remnants of [name]'s dream for lack of our own.

no wonder the empire loves you so.

i find i cannot quite look on that child as an innocent.

even if [name] wasn't right, there is something unnatural in that.

are we not enough?

it's just that you always leave me.

to be alive is to know ghosts. we hear their whispers if we listen.

we are haunted by prophets, all.

we ignore the dead at our peril.

she's not distracted. she's aware.

[name], why have you got me out here at this time in the morning, huh?

no. do not make this sound like a cult.

some of us in our generation know what real religious fervor looks like.

and don't come begging for it like wayward puppies.

we're not begging. we're, um, trading.

that would be a tragic mishap.

it's got bugs the size of dogs and just as cuddly.

the sky looks like spilled coins.

is it possible to know you've got reasons and not know what they are?

no pants for the next twenty-five hours.

maybe it's a mistake. maybe they wandered off course.

we are a scientific outpost. we have nothing of value here.

under imperial edict, [place]] is off-limit to all of them.

we'll call the empire, and they will come.

generally i propose alcohol at a juncture like this.

i told you, different's not the same as special.

that is an ominous happenstance.

pay attention to the patterns and we can presage what comes next.

the ghosts of the dead haunt the skeletons that were once our homes.

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foundation quotes - 1.02, preparing to live so much happens all the time in this show. change pronouns and names as needed.

all anyone has to do is look up to be reminded of our impotence.

i could destroy them still, even at a distance.

martyring dissidents is a risky enterprise.

we have time. a lot of time.

when will you stop taking me so seriously?

i could try, but i doubt i could find a more painful way to die.

there are always sympathizers.

never mastered the dialect. not like a native.

but it sounds perfect, doesn't it?

someone's going to hang for this. i'd like it to be the guilty one.

do i need to tell [name]? or is it enough just to tell you?

don't lie to me! it's okay for [name] to lie to me. i expect that, but not from you.

i know what the right thing to do is, [name]. i know.

he who shrouds himself from man's touch shrouds himself from god.

[name] dreams our future. what use would it be to guide our past?

shame grows in darkness.

i did my best to engineer the outcome.

you're afraid to tell him, and you don't want to talk about it.

it's close. i'm not saying it's not close, but not everything is solved.

i've managed not to die for a long while now.

you know i'm not the same as you.

the rest of your kind died.

they didn't die. they were destroyed by your kind.

millions dead, with a prophecy of trillions more.

they're still pulling bodies out of the wreckage.

you must admit it makes no sense.

someone is trying to destroy us.

this is the legacy. yours and ours.

we may scream it is not fair, and we would be right.

one of you is telling the truth.

we should let you all go free. we should. but we won't.

apparently, i'm better at predicting the future than i am at remembering the past.

i'm just afraid i don't know which mistakes are important.

[name]… with you… i want it all.

threaten the peace and pay a dear price.

our world will live on. you… will not.

tell the living and the dead you failed to save them.

i'll always be here, as i always have been.

how often does it end like this? how often do we choose this?

the weight of traditions protects us.