Graham McNeill Quotes

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

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

I cannot accept that,' said Uriel. 'The destruction of the Emperor's loyal subjects cannot be right.'
'We cannot always do what is right, Uriel. There is often a great gulf in the difference between the way things are and the way we believe they should be. Sometimes we must learn to accept the things we cannot change.'
'No, lord admiral, I believe we must endeavour to change the things we cannot accept. It is by striving against that which is perceived as wrong that makes a great warrior. The primarch himself said that when a warrior makes peace with his fear and stands against it, he becomes a true hero. For if you do not fear a thing, where is the courage in standing against it?

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…

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.

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

Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant."

- First Chaplain Erebus

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

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

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.

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.

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.

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

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.