False Gods Quotes

“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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, False Gods

“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.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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, False Gods

“I was there the day that Horus fell.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

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

- First Chaplain Erebus”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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, False Gods

“In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“The truth is useless if no one can hear it.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

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

- Warmaster Horus”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“Life is a risk, my friend. ... We cannot avoid risk, my friend, for if we do, we achieve nothing.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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, False Gods

“I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure. If being an iterator has taught me anything, it's that men of words - priests, prophets and intellectuals - have played a more decisive role in history than any military leaders or statesmen."

- Kyril Sindermann”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“...When we turn from one brother, we turn from them all."
"Even when they have made a terrible mistake?"
"Even then. We all make mistakes, lad. We need to appreciate them for what they are - lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, of course, but at least someone else can learn from that.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“In the wake of such deceit and destruction shall we despair, or is faith and honour the spur to action?”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

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

“I hammered and forged myself upon the anvil of battle and conquest. All that I have achieved in the last two centuries will be given away to weak men and women who were not here to shed their blood with us in the dark places of the galaxy. Where is the justice in that? Lesser men will rule what I have conquered, but what will be my reward once the fighting is done?”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“You may think your tribute is paid in secret in the recesses of your heart, but it will out. We are a curious species when it comes to worship. The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."

- Kyril Sindermann”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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, False Gods

“With time to wait, there was time to think; and with time to think, the human mind could conjure all manner of things from the depths of its imagination.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“Chaos is the first power in the universe and it will be the last. When the first ape creatures bashed each other’s brains out with bones, or cried to the heavens in the death throes of plague, they fed and nurtured Chaos. The blissful release of excess and the glee of intrigue – all is grist for the soul mills of Chaos. So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.’ Horus reached”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“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. Such knowledge, he claimed, would sear the mind of man and leave him gibbering and insane with the realisation that he was utterly alone in an uncaring universe.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“—Así renuncio a las reglas del Emperador y de su lacayo, el señor de la guerra, por mi propia y libre voluntad. Si se atreve a venir aquí, morirá. Y en la muerte vivirá para siempre. Bendita sea la mano de Nurgh-leth. Bendita sea. Bendita sea…”
― Graham McNeill, Falsos Dioses

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is, the sooner it is over.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods