Graham McNeill Quotes

• “You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.”

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• “Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”

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• “When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,’ the Warmaster had told him.
  ‘And what are they?’ he had asked.
  ‘That there will be something solid to stand on or you’ll be taught to fly,’ laughed Horus as he jumped.”

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• “The Emperor tells us that civilization will only achieve perfection when the last stone of the last church falls upon the last priest.”

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• “In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.”

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• “I was there the day that Horus fell.”

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• “He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.”

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• “A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally proving that there was no god.”

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• “This is a sublime work whether any higher power exists or not. It does not prove the existence of anything. No gods ever created art.'
  'In an earlier age, some might have considered such a sentiment blasphemy.'
  'Blasphemy,' said Revelation with a wry smile, 'is a victimless crime.”

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• “There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge”

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• “I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.”

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• “One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder.”

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• “Unanswered vox hails requested medical aid and supply, but the line of Astartes at the top of the north ridge was grimly silent as the exhausted warriors of the Raven Guard and Salamanders came to within a hundred metres of their allies. A lone flare shot skyward from inside the black fortress where Horus had made his lair, exploding in a hellish red glow that lit the battlefield below like a madman’s vision of the end of the world. And the fire of betrayal roared from the barrels of a thousand guns.”

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• “Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has the chance.”

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• “So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.”

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• “The dead do not squabble as this land’s rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace…”

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• “It is the folly of men to believe that they are great players on the stage of history, that their actions might affect the grand procession that is the pasage of time.”

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• “You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens."
  
  - Warmaster Horus”

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• “The truth is useless if no one can hear it.”

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• “There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always “over there”, but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.”

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• “Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant."
  
  - First Chaplain Erebus”

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• “A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.”

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• “I suppose that’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime,’ nodded Horus, ‘to set an example, and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history”

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• “Going from the pursuit of perfection in all things to ultimate depravity isn’t a journey anybody makes in one step, it’s a series of small ones – each one justifiable in its own isolated way. But after you’ve taken a hundred of those small steps, you’re a long way from who you were at the start.”

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• “Instead of a helmet, Skarssen wore a tight-fitting leather mask fashioned in the form of some hideous amalgam of wolf and daemon, lacquered and pierced with fragments of stone. His eyes shone through the mask, cold flint to match the grey of his armour, and a black-bladed axe with an edge like napped obsidian was sheathed across his back.”

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