Graham McNeill Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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

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#7. I was there the day that Horus fell.

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#8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#13. In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.

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