The Best William Edgars Quotes

William: Do you know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness?
Michael: Not off-hand, but I'd be willing to bet it involved three goats and a jug of wine.
William: "Happiness," they said, was "the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope."

[first lines]
Michael: Oh, what the hell is it with this place? I can't get just one solid night's sleep. - Lights. - Yeah, what is it?
Computer: Incoming message from Mars, sent by William Edgars. Do you wish to receive?
Michael: Yeah, put it through.
William: Good Morning, Mr. Garibaldi.
Michael: Mr. Edgars, have I ever mentioned to you that there is a seven-hour time difference between Babylon 5 and Mars?

[monitored by a telepath, Garibaldi tells Edgars of his suspicions about his employment.]
Michael: Everybody lies.
William: That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.
Michael: Yeah, well, it's the only one I got. And it works for me.

William: How many people actually belonged to the Nazi party? The Communist party? The Jihad party? A very small number. But there were always plenty of other people who were happy to do the work for them, and others afraid enough to let it happen.

William: Megacorporations have been running things for years. We just don't show ourselves much. People wouldn't understand. So we let them think they still have a voice.

William: You're still laboring under the notion that people take power. Nobody takes power. They're given power, by the rest of us, because we are stupid or afraid, or both. The Germans in 1939, the Russians in 1917... they handed over power to people they thought could settle scores, "get the trains running on time," restore their prestige.

William: You're thinking in old terms, in force of arms. But times have changed. We're talking a war of information, a war of secrets, a war of intimidation.