Quotes Imperium
From Lexicanum
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| Alphabetical order | Author | Quote | Source |
| - | Runic Spaceflight - An Introduction: Naval Flight Manual W110E | Should a machine not function upon striking the panel marked 'on' this is an omen of great ill. The reasons ascribed may be as follows. Firstly, the function of inadequate preparation on the part of the operator. Secondly, the action of the machine whose spirit may refuse the binding of the operator. Thirdly, the malintent of some third party upon the operator or machine. The operator must repeat the ritual from the beginning repurifying himself, enscribing the runes, intoning the incantations, and striking the panel marked 'on'. An accompanying oath may be made. Should this procedure fail, the operator must recourse to consulting the instruction manual. | Book of the Astronomican p18 |
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| Unattributed | Walk softly and carry a big Multi-melta. | Book of the Astronomican p97 | |
| Unattributed | Success is commemmorated; Failure merely remembered. | Book of the Astronomican p104 | |
| Texts | Training questions, Administration Cant and Dogma |
Question: What has the Emperor ever done for me? | Book of the Astronomican p67 |
| Statement of fact, Second Book of Chantings |
There is only the Emperor, | Book of the Astronomican p78 | |
| Inspirational Verse, Imperial Hymnal Vol. IV | Hate! Hate! Hate! An emotion as pure as it is deep! | Book of the Astronomican p101 | |
| Parables | You gaze at the mountain, Children of Terra, you see its snow-capped peak and the clouds upon its slopes. You dream of reaching that pinnacle and drinking the cold waters. But who dreams of the road that ascends the mountain side? The road to the peak is hard and murderous. It has broken countless Children of Terra upon its rocks. Their splintered bones lie scattered upon it, paving the way to the mountain top. At every step you will hear the bones crumbling under foot, and maybe you shall hear the wind-blown voices of the dead - guiding you forward or leading you to your doom. Yes, my children, the way to the mountain is cruel and unforgiving. And of those who struggle their long lives, spending their energy and vigour in the climb, who then can taste the melt-water of the summit and say, 'Yes... yes it was worthwhile?' | Book of the Astronomican p84 | |
| Unknown | Weigh the fist that strikes men down And salutes the battle won. | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p74 | |
| Unknown | Speed the bolt that brings the end of enemy and friend. | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p76 | |
| Unknown | The greatest man is but a ripple on the surface of space. | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p76 | |
| Unknown | Praise the sun that brings the dawn of our final doom. | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p80 | |
| Unknown | Wisdom is the beginning of fear. | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p80 | |
| Unknown | We shall carry our word, We will correct and unify, Hail the Emperor! | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p92 | |
| Firing rite (old recension) | With the blood of an enemy shall the marks be made upon the missile. Then bless the missile and present unto the mounting. Say the prayer of firing and curse the target. Do this rapidly lest the wrath of the weapon be wasted. Point the eye of the weapon so that it may see the object of its wrath. When the weapon has uttered its curse and eaten the soul of its victim, then shall you take up the next missile... | Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p131 | |
| D | Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist 479.M41 | If you don't expect gratitude you'll seldom be disappointed. | The Traitor's Hand (Novel) |
| F | Tollen Ferlang, Imperial Envoy to the Realm of Ultramar, 564-603 M41 | It’s often remarked that diplomacy is just warfare by other means. Our battles are no less desperate for being bloodless, but at least we get wine and finger food. | For the Emperor (Novel) |
| S | Sensei saying | Only in your deepest self is the truth of what you can be. And, without a doubt, that truth is terrible to bear. | Book of the Astronomican p70 |
Contents |
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| The universe has many horrors yet to throw at us. This is not the end of our struggle. This is just the beginning of our crusade to save Humanity. Be faithful! Be strong! Be vigilant! +++ The Emperor +++ |
| No world shall be beyond my rule; no enemy shall be beyond my wrath. +++ The Emperor +++ |
| Do not neglect the defence of gateways. They must be able to bar entry as well as allowing it. +++ unknown +++ |
| Fotens terribilitas, adjuva me in extremis!
Mighty Terribilitas, aid me in my plight! |
| Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. +++ unknown +++ |
| The warrior who acts out of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself. Even his death - if it is honourable - is a reward and can be no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honour as you act, therefore, and you will know no fear. +++ unknown +++ |
| The lot of courage is to be sacrificed on the altar of battle. +++ unknown +++ |
| Do not waste your tears. I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men. +++ unknown +++ |
| There is no right or wrong in our profession. The present changes the past from moment to moment. Only pray for the future to vindicate your action. +++ unknown +++ |
| Every man is a spark in the darkness. by the time he is noticed he is gone forever. A retinal after-image that fades and is obscured by newer, brighter lights. +++ unknown +++ |
| For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and unremembered. +++ unknown +++ |
| What is the terror of death
That we die our work incomplete What is the joy of life To die knowing our task is done |
| Between the stars the ancient unseen enemies of mankind wait and hunger. Every voyage into the nothing is a confrontation with horror, with the implacable things of the warp, and with man's own innermost fear. +++ unknown +++ |
| An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded. +++ Librarian Isador Akios (Dawn of War,PC)+++ |
| From every culvert and gutter erupted the scum of a thousand generations in the breeding, a great swarm of evil and destruction, and darkness consumed the city of Galaspar +++ unknown +++ |
| Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane. +++ Proverb +++ |
| Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun. +++ unknown +++ |
| If a job's worth doing it's worth dying for. +++ Proverb +++ |
| It is not my mind to ask questions that cannot be answered. That is the soul standing upon the crossroad of vacillation. You search for wisdom, but achieve only a stasis of will. +++ unknown +++ |
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| How can a man be happy if he cannot serve his lord with his whole heart? +++ Litany of the Adeptus +++ |
| Every servant has his place, no matter how lowly or modest. To know it is his greatest comfort, to excel within it is his greatest solace, and his master's contentment is his greatest reward. +++ Codex Administratum +++ |
| Our thoughts light the Darkness that others may cross space.
We are one with the Emperor, our souls are joined in his will. Praise the Emperor whose sacrifice is life as ours is death. Hail his name the Master of Humanity. |
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| A fortress is a living thing: the commander its brain, the walls its bones, the sensors its eyes and ears, the troops its blood, their weapons its fists. This tells us two things: If one organ fails, the whole dies. And if the whole dies, no single organ can survive alone. +++ attributed to Mordin Barr +++ |
| Contact with alien races always renews one's faith in humanity. It is my belief that foreign travel narrows the mind wonderfully. +++ attributed to Helem Boesch +++ |
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| You pride yourselves on your power, your Imperium of a million worlds. But heed my words, for we have roamed this galaxy much longer than you. You are callow infants. The Tyranids have spent millennia crossing the great expanses between galaxies; the Slann, before they departed, faced Chaos when the Eldar were young; the Necron have defied extinction and are awakening. Savour your victory here; it will be cold comfort when your time comes. +++ Chiramthanus Inscription, found carved into the ruins of the Great Chiramthanus Library. +++ |
| “You will shoot your enemy once, to ensure he fights no more that day! You will shoot traitors twice, to ensure nothing less than their deserved death!” +++ Lord Governor Charleston, during the defence of his home estate from a Traitor Guard Uprising.+++ |
D
| Victory? What use is victory? Let me have a battle of annihilation. |
G
| Never take a gamble you’re not prepared to lose.For the Emperor (Novel) +++ Abdul Goldberg, Rogue Trader +++ |
| Give me a squad of marines first. But second, give me army troops and a solid wall. +++ Commander Ashton Grimes +++ |
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| My will be done +++ Codex Imperialis page 1 +++Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p129 |
| To be Unclean
- That is the mark of the Mutant
- That is the mark of the Mutant
- That is the mark of the Mutant
- That is the mark of the Mutant
- That is the mark of the Mutant
- That is the fate of the Mutant
- For that is the fate of all Mutants |
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| You ask me how, for example, I would deal with a fortress. What can I say? Blast it? Burn it? Gas it? The list is endless. But the military man should never raise such questions. From the moment he enters the Chapter he is taught to deal with practicalities. What is the objective - capture or destroy? What troops do I have - Space Marines or native planet regulars? How are they equipped? What is known of the defenders? And so on.
A military man avoids open questions, and resists himself to facts. This is a crucial difference; a question requires an answer, a set of facts has only a result. An answer raises further questions, but a result is indisputable. |
L
| An empty mind is like unto a freshly turned sod; if not sown with the seeds of love, duty and honour, the insidious weeds of heresy will take root. +++ Prefect Xavier Lanate from his essay "Heresy and Faith: an Introspection +++ |
M
| Then the prophet spake: saying "Frak this, this, for my faith is a shield proof against your blandishments. +++ Alem Mahat, The Book of Cain, Chapter IV, Verse XXI The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
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| Revenge is a dish best served with mayonnaise and those little cheesy things on sticks. +++ Osric the Loopy, planetary governor of Corania (appointed 756.M41, removed from office by the Officio Assassinorum 764.M41) The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
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| If your battle plan's working, it's probably a trap. +++ Kolton Phae On Military Matters 739.M41 The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
Q
| The past is always with us. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
| If you go looking for trouble, you're sure to find it. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays The Traitor's Hand (Novel)+++ |
| Life’s so much easier when you’ve got someone to blame. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays For the Emperor (Novel) +++ |
| The gratitude of the powerful is a heavy weight to bear. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays For the Emperor (Novel)+++ |
| Old friends are like debt collectors; they have a tendency to turn up when you least expect them. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays For the Emperor (Novel)+++ |
| One thing you can say for enemies; they make life more interesting. +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays The Traitor's Hand (Novel)+++ |
| Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter +++ Gilbran Quail, Collected Essays The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
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| Attention all vessels, this is Lord Admiral Rath. It is clear to me that we cannot win this fight by utilising conventional weapons of warfare. I order you all to disengage and withdraw. The Dominus Astra shall be the fiery sword of retribution that ends this war. I repeat, disengage and pull away. The Emperor's blessing be upon you! +++ Final transmission of Lord Admiral Zaccarius Rath +++ |
| All ahead full and damn the torped... +++ Final order of Captain Rienhard of the Avenger Class Grand Cruiser "The Sword Infernus" +++ |
S
| There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival. Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush. +++ Scriptorus Munificantus +++ |
| Only in your deepest self is the truth of what you can be. And, without a doubt, that truth is terrible to bear. +++ Sensei saying, Book of the Astronomican +++ |
| The wider he smiled and called us friend, the tighter we clung to our purses. +++ Argun Slyter Well What Did You Expect? Act 2 Scene 2 The Traitor's Hand (Novel)+++ |
| Life's a journey. Shame about the destination. +++ Argun Slyter The Wastrel's Stratagem Act 4 Scene 1 The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
| Brave citizens of Armageddon, I beseech you to unite with me and cast off the shackles of Imperial oppression! Join us in our holy cause! Your prince has returned to lead you to FREEDOM!!!
The glorious future may ally and I promise you is becoming a reality. Your deliverance from injustice is but a heartbeat away, waiting for you to embrace it. Join us! Take arms against the Emperor's lapdogs and this world will be ours FOREVER! That we may die in this struggle is of no consequence. Freedom must be paid for, and if that price must be paid in patriots' blood, then so be it. I am Herman von Strab and I am a patriot, ready to stand up and be counted. Governance without freedom is merely tyranny by another name, and I for one am unwilling to live another day under the Emperor's yoke. So, if you wouldbe free men stand with us and help me take back my world. +++ Transmission of Herman von Strab to the population of Armageddon during the Third War for Armageddon +++ |
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| Walls of stone do not a fortress make. But they're not a bad start. +++ Imperial Commander Rango Thaxx +++ |
| The Emperor walks among us. He chooses his vessels to do his work, as he has done so since time began. The rotting carcass maintained in the Golden Throne is not the Emperor, for he travels abroad, tending to his Divine Will, instilling his power into those that have been chosen. But what if the Emperor could be granted a body that does not wither and die, that could be his vessel for all eternity to come? I believe that such a thing is possible, that the Emperor yet waits for his new body to be found or created. In essence, a new Emperor will be created to lead Mankind to its destiny and conquest of the galaxy +++ Theodre the Questioning in the works titled Musings Upon the Will of the Emperor: +++ |
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| I don't have time to die - I'm too busy! +++ Reputed last words of High Lord Goge Vandire, 361st Master of the Administratum +++ |
| You do know that I am doing this for your own good, my friend. The daemons that are within you must be exorcised, so you can once more join the Emperor's fold. +++ Lord Goge Vandire during the psychic trepanning of the Master of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica +++ |
| 'Stories are much tidier than real life. Stories have neat, happy endings, but all you ever really get is unfinished business.' +++ Janni Vakonz, holo director For the Emperor (Novel) +++ |
| The Path of the Warlock wends along the past, present and future alike. His mind is free of the constraints of time, and his destiny and promise are merged into a single state of being. +++ Historicus Ostalan Varus +++ |
| I have seen with mine own eyes many long and terrible wars. I have met brave men and good men whose deaths have weighed heavily upon my soul. On Anathasia I was witness to the Conquests of Zhar and the burning ruins of Ramnion haunt me still. On Badab I watched as the Tyrant's own fortress fell in dark ruin after so many years of unholy war. Even then I was not glad, for too many had fallen who were needed elsewhere. Too many lives extinguished whilst our enemies grew ever more powerful.
Yet in all my many years I have never seen a sight as terrible as that great battle at the Gates of Athan. That horde of Chaos came on as a sea of blood that stretched from horizon to horizon without end. Over it hung a stink of death, a black cloud of evil which tainted the sky with its obscenity. I cannot think of it still without terror, and must endure a moment's panic to write even these few words. Even so, the Eldar did not flinch but stood their ground with a determination that exceeded human resolve as the strength of steel outmatches mortal flesh. And that was when I witnessed for the first and only time the strange secret of that race, seeing then what few humans have seen, the thing beyond human comprehension, the great daemon that is the Avatar of the Eldar. |
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| You can never have too many enemies. The more you've got, the more likely they are to get in each other's way. +++ Jarvin Wallankot, Idle Musings, 605.M41 The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++ |
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