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“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“No, my dear, ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“You are right to ask such things, for it is said that a man’s character can be judged by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Graham McNeill, Fulgrim

“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.”
― Graham McNeill, Fulgrim

“Tradition is a fine ideal, but not when it serves as a shackle on our future endeavours.”
― Mitchel Scanlon, Descent of Angels

“In my experience, civilised men don’t like their justice kept so simple. They like to complicate things.”
― Mitchel Scanlon, Descent of Angels

“What’s the first rule of common soldiering? Trooper Duarte?’ ‘Always assume that anyone in a position senior to you isn’t telling you everything?’ ‘That’s my boy. There’s more to this than meets the eye, so don’t get slack.”
― Dan Abnett, Legion

“Always the teacher, eh?’ said Phosis T’kar. ‘Always,’ agreed Ahriman, ‘and always the student. Every experience is an opportunity to learn.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“What will become of the warriors when there are no more wars?”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons