- [Kira feels awkward because he took the life of Andy's lover Aisha in their last encounter]
- Kira Yamato: You have every reason to want revenge on me.
- Andrew Waltfeld: That's what happens in war. Everyone has some kind of reason, but no one does.
- Andrew Waltfeld: The first time I actually ever had to shoot somebody, it turned my stomach. They told me I'd get used to it in time. And after a while, that's what happened.
- Lacus Clyne: [to Athrun] What is it you believe in? What is it you're fighting for now? Is it for that medal you received? Or your father's orders?
- Kira Yamato: [Slaps Cagalli] What the hell can you hope to protect when your feelings are the only weapons you've got?
- Kira Yamato: I'm not sure what I am. Maybe I wasn't meant to be born into this world.
- Lacus Clyne: 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. You know since I've met you, I have become a much happier women.
- Kira Yamato: Lacus.
- Lacus Clyne: [leans on his shoulder] I want you to stay here, Kira. With me.
- Kira Yamato: [sighs and pulls her closer]
- [subtitled version]
- Athrun Zala: Then shoot me. I'm the one responsible for pulling the trigger on that mobile suit. I am a ZAFT pilot. I will not allow you to touch my machine. If you insist on using that gun, I will kill you.
- [subtitled version]
- Cagalli Yula Athha: One kills because another is killed! Then gets killed because he kills! How the hell is that going to bring us peace? Well?
- Kira Yamato: If one did nothing because he tells himself that he won't make a difference, he'd end up doing even less. Then nothing would change, and nothing would end.
- Motto of Orb: Orb will not attack another nation, will not allow another nation to attack them, and will not intervene in the conflicts of other nations.
- [subtitled version]
- Lacus Clyne: We declare peace, but with weapons in our hands. The choice we're making may also be evil. However, please give us the power to put a halt to this string of battles, which has no end in sight.
- Murrue Ramius: [about the Earth Aliance] Do you think they're planning to launch an all-out attack on the PLANTs?
- Andrew Waltfeld: Their military is full of people who have always wanted to pull off that kind of stunt. "For the preservation of our blue and pure world."
- Mu La Flaga: That's enough.
- Andrew Waltfeld: Hey, they're the ones saying it, not me.
- Mu La Flaga: I know, but you're right.
- Andrew Waltfeld: I can't see how getting rid of all the Coordinators would lead to a pure world. I don't even know what a pure world is.
- Blue Cosmos motto: For the preservation of our blue and pure world!
- [after learning that Athrun was the one responsible for Tolle's death, Miriallia runs off crying rather than attack him like she did to Dearka who runs after her]
- Dearka Elsman: Hey!
- Miriallia Haww [English version]: What do you want?
- Dearka Elsman: Uh... he's the one who killed that guy... you know, Tolle.
- Miriallia Haww [English version]: So, what is your point? Weren't you listening to Kira? This is what he meant! Would killing him bring Tolle back to me? Of course it wouldn't. So, why don't you just stop talking about it?
- Cagalli Yula Athha: [to Athrun] I bet your head is like a hamster running in its wheel right about now.
- [Turning down Natarle's plea that she surrender]
- Murrue Ramius: This isn't only about what happened at Alaska. We have serious doubts about the Earth Forces in their entirety. No surrender, no return to the military!
- [the Earth Forces have once again used nuclear weapons and destroyed Boaz]
- Muruta Azrael: That was nice and quick. Even ZAFT's fortresses are simply no match for nuclear warheads.
- Natarle Badgiruel: Director Azrael...
- Muruta Azrael: Hm?
- Natarle Badgiruel: I understand that they're our enemies, but don't you feel any remorse for using nuclear weapons?
- Muruta Azrael: I must say I'm surprised to hear that kind of comment from a professional soldier. Why I'm almost a saint compared to some commanders who would knowingly send their troops out to die knowing full well that it was a battle they could never win.
- [Yzak refuses to participate any further in the battle because his enemies are defenseless, and he is disgusted by the glee exhibited by his comrades while firing on them]
- Yzak Jule: What's so fun about firing at targets that aren't moving?
- Fllay Allster: But I... I really have to see him again. Kira
- [sniffs]
- Fllay Allster: is alive.
- [cries]
- Fllay Allster: So, I really have to see him and talk to him and the others... properly this time!
- Natarle Badgiruel: You may want to stay off the bridge. It won't be as frightening if you stay in your sleeping quarters. You look sacred.
- Fllay Allster: I-I'm terrified! But I'm just starting to realize now... everybody else saw it and understood what was happening as it unfolded, but I...
- [flashback to her cowering in Kira's bed]
- Natarle Badgiruel: Most people are lucky they don't see those things. From here on, this war is only going to get worse. We're going to see a lot more of what we just witnessed.
- Fllay Allster: But that man...
- [flashback of Rau]
- Fllay Allster: ... he said the war was going to end now!
- Natarle Badgiruel: Oh, it will end all right. Once every last enemy is destroyed. Only then will it end.
- Tolle Koening: Kira!
- Kira Yamato: Tolle no! Stay back!
- [Tolle fires a missile at the Aegis Gundam piloted by Athrun Zala, but Athrun dodges the attack and smashes the Skygrasper with his shield, beheading Tolle]
- Kira Yamato: Tolle!
- [Back on the Archangel, Miriallia gasps as the signal from Tolle's Skygrasper disappears. Meanwhile, back on the battlefield, Kira activates his SEED mode with tears in his eyes, having just lost a close friend]
- Kira Yamato: Athrun!
- [Kira uses the Strike Gundam to cut off the Aegis Gundam's right arm and kick it in the face]
- Athrun Zala: [to Kira] I'm going to...
- [activates his SEED mode for the first time]
- Athrun Zala: ... KILL YOU!
- [Kira and Athrun fight each other to the death]
- Kira Yamato: Athrun!
- Athrun Zala: Kira!
- Mu La Flaga: Le Creuset! Is this what you were hoping for, you bastard?
- Rau Le Creuset: You shouldn't blame me! This is mankind's dream, mankind's desire, mankind's destiny! To be the strongest, to go the farthest, to climb the highest!
- Mu La Flaga: You're pathetic!
- Rau Le Creuset: To compete, to envy, to hate each other, and to devour one another!
- Mu La Flaga: I won't let your twisted logic make things worse!
- Rau Le Creuset: But you're too late, Mu. You see... I am the product of all of this, that's how I know!
- Rau Le Creuset: [To Kira] You are the dream of humanity, the Ultimate Coordinator. It was in pursuit of that dream that Dr. Hibiki created the artificial womb. And you are the only viable child it ever produced. For that result, a very large number of your siblings were sacrificed.
- Rau Le Creuset: Do you think you can change whats going to happen? Nobody can do anything about it. The whirlpool of hatred is engulfing the universe!
- Rau Le Creuset: Why torment yourself saying, 'Eventually, someday?' How long have you been fighting with your thoughts clouded by that brand of sweet poison?
- Dearka Elsman: I can't just quietly follow orders when it looks like all we're trying to do is wipe out every last Natural alive.
- Muruta Azrael: It's simple; even a single Coordinator is a threat to the Earth's survival, and our goal here is to get rid of them all!
- Andrew Waltfeld: Unlike in sports, the game of war has no set time limit and no points are awarded, so how do you determine the winners and the losers? When all your enemies are destroyed? Perhaps then.
- Clotho Buer: What's the deal with you two anyway? Why are you fighting so desperately?
- Athrun Zala: I want to ask you the same thing. What do you guys think you're fighting for?
- Clotho Buer: Don't ask me, I don't really know. I hate losing. That's my only reason!
- Athrun Zala: What?
- Clotho Buer: Not that I would ever lose!
- Miriallia Haww [English version]: [about Athrun] Would killing him bring Tolle back to me? Of course it wouldn't. So, why don't you stop talking about?
- [Kira thinks he has just killed Andrew Waltfeld and cries]
- Kira Yamato: It didn't have to end like this!
- Athrun Zala: Is this... yours?
- [holds out Birdy to Kira]
- Kira Yamato: [Birdy hops on to Kira's outstretched hands] Yes...
- [pauses]
- Kira Yamato: It's a valuable gift, from a valuable friend.
- Athrun Zala: I see...
- [turns to leave]
- Sai Argyle: What a lovely voice! But I have to wonder though... is that voice a result of fiddling around with her genes?
- Lacus Clyne: But your kindess doesn't come from being a Coordinator... it's because of who you are Mr. Yamato
- Cagalli Yula Athha: What? You're just going to fall asleep like that?
- Athrun Zala: Why not?
- Cagalli Yula Athha: I'll steal your gun.
- Athrun Zala: Do that and I'll have to kill you.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: There's something I have to know. Were you the one who destroyed the Strike?
- Athrun Zala: It was me.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: What happened to the pilot? Did he escape like you did? Eject? Or... we couldn't find Kira... anywhere. Say something!
- Athrun Zala: He's gone. Hmm... Because I took his life. It's true. I did it. I trapped the Strike with my Aegis and blew up. I don't see how he could have escaped. That was the only option I had left... to finish him.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Murderer!
- [hits wall]
- Cagalli Yula Athha: It's not fair!
- Athrun Zala: But why... am I still alive. I guess because I got out just in time... or maybe... your destined to finish me.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Kira... took too many risks, didn't always know what he was doing and always cried. But he was kind. He was a nice guy!
- Athrun Zala: Yeah, I know. Sounds like Kira hadn't changed a bit. He was always like that.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Did you...
- Athrun Zala: He was a sentimental crybaby. And he was smart, but he never thought things through.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Did you really know Kira?
- Athrun Zala: Yes. We were... close. We've been friends, ever since the days when we were kids. We were the best of friends.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: But then... that's crazy! If you consider yourself such a good friend, then why would you do this?
- Athrun Zala: I dunno. I have no idea why either ok?
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Huh?
- Athrun Zala: We separated as friends and the next time I saw him we were enemies.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Enemies?
- Athrun Zala: I asked him to come with us, over and over, because he was a coordinator, can't you see? He was one of us, that's where he belonged! It wasn't right for him to be on the side of the Earth forces!
- Cagalli Yula Athha: So you...
- Athrun Zala: But whenever we talked, he wouldn't listen! He fought against us, even hurting friends of mine! And then he took Nicol's life!
- Cagalli Yula Athha: And so... that's why you did this to... your friend?
- Athrun Zala: He was an enemy. He wasn't on my side anymore! I had no choice but to destroy him!
- Cagalli Yula Athha: Ugh! You idiot! How could you have ever come up with something so stupid? How could you end up doing something so terrible?
- Athrun Zala: He took Nicol's life right before my eyes! Nicol was fifteen. He loved the piano. He only fought to protect the Plants and Kira just cut him down.
- Cagalli Yula Athha: The reason Kira fought was to protect other people too, but it doesn't explain why he had to pay with his life, and at the hands of his best friend, of all people! One guy takes the life for vengeance and then someones gets revenge by taking his life. How is that kind of twisted thinking every gonna bring us peace? Well?
- Cagalli Yula Athha: [has a gun drawn on Athurn, whose knife is drawn upon her in a combat stance] I won't let you get back in that Mobile Suit! Many more will die if I do!
- Athrun Zala: [With courageous sincerity] Then shoot me.
- [Cagalli gasps]
- Athrun Zala: I must fight the naturals, for if I don't, more of my people will be murdered like the innocents on PLANT. Such is my duty, for I am a warrior of ZAFT. So if you intend to stop me, I suggest you open fire.
- Rau Le Creuset: You always seem to get in my way, Mwu La Flaga. Though I imagine you'd say the same about me.
- Mu La Flaga: Give me a break. The minute we solve the problem with the supplies, we get thrown another in the form of a pink-haired princess.
- Athrun Zala: Using a rescued civilian as a hostage? So do you still feel justified in fighting by their side with these cowards? Kira?