Quotes from Graham McNeill

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

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

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.

I was there the day that Horus fell.

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.

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In all things we strive to eradicate weakness, but it is not weakness to ask for help, my brothers. It is weakness to deny that help is needed. To fight on without hope when there are those who would gladly lend a hand is foolish, and I have been as blind as any to this, but no more.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future." - Warmaster Horus

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.

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

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

So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.

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…

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Ahzek Ahriman

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.

I love mirrors,' he had once heard Fulgrim say. 'They let one pass through the surface of things.

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

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