A Thousand Sons Quotes

“The seeker after truth must have a care he is not deceived, for false knowledge is far more dangerous than ignorance. All men wish to possess knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price. Always men will seek to take the short cut, the quick route to power, and it is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that will lure him to evil ways. True knowledge is gained only after the acquisition of wisdom. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful, he becomes reckless. His power will turn on him and eventually destroy all he has built.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“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

“Her body hissed and spat as it was reduced to jellied runnels of boiling fat and meat.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“Hard-won knowledge is of no value unless it is put into practice. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do!”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge”.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“Though Ahriman had seen the Wolf King before, Leman Russ at war was an entirely different proposition to Leman Russ at peace. One was brutally fearsome and intimidating, and the other utterly terrifying, an avatar of destruction as monstrous as the bloodiest culture’s renditions of their gods of murder, war and death combined. A living engine of destruction, Ahriman saw Russ clearly for what he was: pure force and will alloyed into a living weapon that could be aimed and loosed, but never called back.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

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

“I am a loyal son of the Emperor, and I would never betray him, for I have already broken his heart and his greatest creation. I will accept my fate and though history may judge us traitors, we will know the truth. We will know we were loyal unto the end because we accepted our fate.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“He felt a hand on his arm and looked into the face of a startlingly handsome warrior in the pearl-coloured plate of a Luna Wolf.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“In his quieter, darker moments, Lemuel would often wonder if the Imperium was really as enlightened as it claimed.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“Magnus! Enough!’ barked Lorgar. ‘This is not the time for such debate. Two of my dearest brothers are at each other’s throats, and it grieves me to know how this shall disappoint our father. Is this what he created us for? Is this why he scoured the heavens looking for us? So we could descend into petty bickering like mortals? We have greater destinies before us, and must be above such lesser concerns. We are our father’s avatars of conquest, fiery comets of righteousness set loose to illuminate the cosmos with his glory. We are his emissaries sent out into the galaxy to bear word of his coming. We must be bright, shining examples of all that is good and pure in the Imperium.’ Lorgar’s words reached out to all who heard them, the fundamental truth they contained like a soothing balm. Ahriman was ashamed they had allowed things to spin so violently out of control, seeing the true horror of this situation. Brother against brother. Could there be anything worse?”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“If there is one thing I have come to know in my long years of study, it is that there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the positioning of the universe’s chess pieces. Your coming here was no accident. I was meant to train you. I have seen it.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“Such arrogant certainty,’ said the serpent with relish. ‘How pleasing that is to me. All the very worst sins are accomplished with such certainty: gluttony, wrath, lust… pride. No force in existence can compete with mortals in the grip of certainty.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“Instead of a helmet, Skarssen wore a tight-fitting leather mask fashioned in the form of some hideous amalgam of wolf and daemon, lacquered and pierced with fragments of stone. His eyes shone through the mask, cold flint to match the grey of his armour, and a black-bladed axe with an edge like napped obsidian was sheathed across his back.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“— Как я стал твоим сыном, так и они будут моими сыновьями, — заявил Магнус Императору, и эти слова навсегда изменили судьбу Тысячи Сынов.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons

“— Это не простота, Азек, — сказал Магнус, пока вокруг них собирались уцелевшие Астартес Тысячи Сынов. — Это ясность цели.”
― Graham McNeill, A Thousand Sons