The best Quotes by Grand Admiral Thrawn

For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

There are things in the universe that are simply and purely evil. A warrior does not seek to understand them, or to compromise with them. He seeks only to obliterate them.

A warrior may forget that even the task of identifying the enemy can be difficult. And the cost of that failure can lead to catastrophe.

To defeat an enemy, you must know them. Not simply their battle tactics, but their history. Philosophy. Art.

I am a warrior, Your Majesty. A warrior may retreat. He does not flee. He may lie in ambush. He does not hide. He may experience victory or defeat. He does not cease to serve.

Who deserves what is irrelevant. What matters is who has power.

I do not require glory, only results for my Emperor.

All lives are important, and I resist the thought of standing by and watching two hundred possibly needless deaths.

Palpatine: "Congratulations, Grand Admiral. An excellent day for you. An excellent day for my Empire. Though I fear many will not see it that way."
Thrawn: "I will endeavor to set their hearts and minds at ease. But I must first calm my own heart and mind."

She could be our key to locating the true rebel fleet.

It is said that one should keep one's allies within view, and one's enemies within reach. A valid statement. One must be able to read an ally's strengths, so as to determine how to best use them. One must similarly be able to read his enemy's weaknesses, so as to determine how to best defeat him. But what of friends? There is no accepted answer, perhaps true friendship is so exceedingly rare. But I had formulated my own. A friend need not be kept within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his present. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

Aristocra Zistalmu: "You've made quite a name for yourself over the past few years."
Thrawn: "Sometimes that name is appended to a curse."

I will start my operations here, and pull the rebels apart piece by piece. They will be the architects of their own destruction.

I can see it all. Their tactics, their patterns, their weaknesses. I could tell you right here, right now, how to beat them.

If any break off and run, let them go. Their tales of what happened here today will hasten the demoralization of any other such groups.

Thrawn: "You are a Jedi, then?"
Anakin: "I'd have thought that was obvious."
Thrawn: "Not at all. Our myths of the Republic speak of two groups of beings with such powers: the Jedi, and the Sith. But the Sith are reputed to be clever and capable warriors."

Qilori: "If they suspect you're hunting pirates-"
Thrawn: "You think they only suspect? Yes; point taken. Let's remove any lingering doubts."

Time for Thrawn to face his future.
Time for Vader to face his past.

Things have changed. I started hearing whispers about Thrawn's return as heir to the Empire.

There's enough darkness in the galaxy right now. Let me know if you want to spread a little light

We are Alderaan. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. If one life with a single drop of Alderaanian blood survives, Alderaan survives.

Rule through the fear of force rather than force itself.

Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father."

Kanan: "Zeb, are you embarrassing the Imperials again?"
Zeb: "Honestly, Kanan, it's hard not to."

Thrawn or Tarkin would be perfect for this assignment. But both are gone. And few in my Empire rise to their level of skill

Wedge: "You know, for just an hour I'd like to know what it's like to fly with the Force watching my back."
Luke: "It's almost as good as having you watching my back."

If you continue to map the Unknown Regions, you'll have to call them something else.

Lieutenant, you're out of uniform. And you know, wearing an Ewok as a swimsuit is a felony on some worlds.

Cracken: "You're coming dangerously close to insubordination, General."
Wedge: "No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence."

Isard: "I expected you to be taller."
Wedge: "I expected you to be dead."

Tomer, I direct your attention to the word "let". You've misused it. You don't "let" me, or "not let" me, anything. Understand?

Wedge: "What's that?"
Janson: "That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn."
Wedge: "Well, it offends me. Turn it off."

Han: "I could arrange for you to receive orders to conquer Coruscant, but your only resources would be twelve drunken Ewoks, four malfunctioning speeders, and forty kilos of beach sand."
Wedge: "That'll take at least two weeks, sir."

The truth is often what we make of it.

The war left its scars on all of us.

If you define yourself by the power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess... then you have nothing.

One doesn't survive as long as I have by being foolish or unprepared.

Thrawn: "You have the heart of a rebel."
Kallus: "I'll take that as a compliment."

As a Jedi, we were trained to be keepers of the peace, not soldiers. But all I've been since I was a Padawan is a soldier.

It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they're not.

This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the rebellion.

Impatience for victory will guarantee defeat.

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Typical. Always a plan, never a good one.

Ahsoka: "I jsut wish she had changed a little. But she's still just as stubborn and bullish as ever."
Hera: "She's Mandalorian. You knew what you were getting into."

The day I betrayed your Empire, Governor, was the day I finally stopped betraying myself.

Ezra: "Be careful!"
Kanan: "Don't worry. I wouldn't do anything you would do."

You will find that many of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view.

As a Jedi, sometimes you have to make the decision no one else can. So that's what I did to defeat Thrawn. We've been through a lot. Grew up together in this Rebellion. And we're not really family, but you're like a sister to me.

The old ways are done. You can either adapt and survive, or die with the past. The decision is yours.