Graham McNeill Quotes & Sayings

I was there the day that Horus fell. — Graham McNeill

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

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? — Graham McNeill

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 — Graham McNeill

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. — Graham McNeill

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. — Graham McNeill

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. — Graham McNeill

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. — Graham McNeill

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

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

In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown. — Graham McNeill

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

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

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

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