How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different than those did the slaughtering.
Do not fear me. Ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony.[speaking to the cow fetus in the jar]
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.[about Jayne’s home-knit cap]
You’re like a trained ape. Without the training.[to Jayne]
You think there’s someone just gonna drop money on you? Money they could use? Well, there ain’t people like that. There’s just people like me.
You rich kids. You think your lives are the only thing that matters. What’d you do? Kill your folks for the family fortune?[to Simon]
You know what the chain of command is? It’s a chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who’s in ruttin’ command here.[to Wash]
You have a strange sense of nobility, Captain. You’ll lay a man out for implying I’m a wh**e, but you keep calling me one to my face.[to Mal]
You depend on luck, you end up on the drift… no fuel, no prospects… begging for Alliance make-work, getting towed out to the scrap belt. That ain’t us. Not ever.
Well, who in the damn galaxy ain’t?[Saffron: He’s my husband.]
Well, my sister is a ship. We had a complicated childhood.[Jubal Early: You folks are all insane.]
Well, lady, I must say… you’re my kind of stupid.[to Nandi]