Torches Quote by Graham McNeill

“He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.” quote by Graham McNeill — Download Open image

““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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“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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“In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.”

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“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”

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“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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“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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