"Ugly? I'll have you know they call me Th…" — Kaoru Kamiya Quote

"Murder is the only art a swordsman may practice. No ornamental words can change that. You want to protect people with murder? You'll slaughter legions so that a few may live. Many years, long before you were born, my sword was tearing asunder the lives of men. Yes, all of those men were evil, but they were human beings first and foremost, Kenshin. The world you ardently desire to enter will not know what to do with you. It will deceive you into believing that you are saving lives even as you destroy them. You will accept these lies all the while, your hands will be stained with the worst of offenses."

— Seijuro Hiko · Rurouni Kenshin

"You believe that the strong exist to cull the weak. To use them as food. But you are mistaken... The strong exist, not to feed off of the weak, but to protect them!"

— Kenshin Himura · Rurouni Kenshin

"When one person kills, resentment is born. That resentment makes a person kill again. To sever that vicious cycle--that is the purpose of this sword that cannot kill."

— Kenshin Himura · Rurouni Kenshin

"Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it."

— Kenshin Himura · Rurouni Kenshin

"New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them."

— Kenshin Himura · Rurouni Kenshin

"The moon peers down on a diseased world... There is no cure for the disease, an entire race walks mindlessly into destruction. Not even a man of colossal power, would be able to prevent the inevitable."

— Seijuro Hiko · Rurouni Kenshin