The Complete Book of Quotes, Warhammer

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF QUOTES
WARHAMMER
''NOBODY IS INNOCENT, THERE ARE MERELY VARYING

LEVELS OF GUILT.''
CONTENTS
Imperium p. 4
Chaos p. 15
Adeptus Mechanicus p. 29
Ecclesiarchy p. 38
Astra Militarum p. 46
Imperial Navy p. 76
Inquisition p. 78
Officio Assassinorum p. 91
Space Marines p. 93
Squat p. 138
Adeptus Arbites p. 141
Eldar p. 143
Orks p. 152
Tau p. 161
Dark Eldar p. 168
Tyranid p.173
Thoughts of the Day p.180
Imperial Texts
Tome
Quote
Source
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
Runic Spaceflight
refuse the binding of the operator. Thirdly, the malintent
- An Introduction:
of some third party upon the operator or machine. The
Naval Flight
operator must repeat the ritual from the beginning reManual W110E
purifying 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,
p. 18
Training
questions,
Administration
Cant and Dogma
Question: What has the Emperor ever done for me?

Answer: What have you ever done for the Emperor?
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 67
Statement of fact,
Second Book of
Chantings
There is only the Emperor,

and he is our Shield and Protector.
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 78
Inspirational
Verse, Imperial
Hymnal Vol. IV
Hate! Hate! Hate!

An emotion as pure as it is deep!
Hate! Hate! Hate!
Let it flow, let it run free!
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 101
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
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 84
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?'
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,
p. 131
Litany of the
Adeptus
How can a man be happy if he cannot serve his lord with

his whole heart?
[Needs Citation]
Codex
Administratum
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.
[Needs Citation]
The Credo of the

Astronomican
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.
-extract
[Needs Citation]
Chiramthanus
Inscription
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.
-found carved into the ruins of the Great Chiramthanus
Library
[Needs Citation]
My will be done
-page 1
Warhammer
40,000
Codex Imperialis
Compendium,
p. 129
First Book of
Indoctrination
To be Unclean
- That is the mark of the Mutant
To be Impure
To be Abhorred
To be Reviled
To be Hunted
-That is the mark of the Mutant
To be Purged
- That is the fate of the Mutant
To be Cleansed
- For that is the fate of all Mutants
-Extract from a Training Chant
[Needs Citation]
Scriptorus
Munificantus
There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival.

Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you
must crush.
-(also attributed to Lord Solar Macharius
[Needs Citation]
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Cardinal
Morius
Blate,
Ecclesiarch
Primus
The Imperium! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its

boundaries! As one world dies ten more are brought into the
fold. Fear us, for we count the lives of planets, not men!
Apocalypse, p.
21
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
Mordin Barr
fails, the whole dies. And if the whole dies, no single organ can
survive alone.
- attributed
Warhammer
Siege, p. 91
Contact with alien races always renews one's faith in humanity.

It is my belief that foreign travel narrows the mind wonderfully.
-attributed
[Needs Citation]
Helem
Boesch
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lord Governor
Charleston
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!
-during the defence of his home estate from a Traitor
[Needs Citation]
Guard Uprising
If all else fails: duck. As a defensive stratagem it's
unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment
or two.
Lord Corvis of
Petrax
Warhammer 40,000 5th

Edition Rulebook, pg.
21
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Eyor Dedonki
If you don't expect gratitude

you'll seldom be disappointed.
-"Memoirs of a Pessimist,"
479.M41
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter Four, p. 539
Fleet
Commissar
Drussos
Victory? What use is victory?

Let me have a battle of
annihilation.
[Needs Citation]
E
Speaker
The Emperor
of Mankind
Quote
Source
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!
Collected
Visions, p. 367
No world shall be beyond my rule; no enemy shall be beyond

my wrath.
[Needs Citation]
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
Its often remarked that diplomacy is

Tollen Ferlang,
just warfare by other means. Our battles
Imperial Envoy to the
are no less desperate for being
Realm of Ultramar,
bloodless, but at least we get wine and
564-603 M41
finger food.
For the Emperor (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the

Imperium (Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell, Ch. 4, p. 83
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Abdul Goldberg,
Rogue Trader
For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

Never take a gamble youre not
prepared to lose.
Mitchell, Ch. 14, p. 225
Commander
Ashton Grimes
Give me a squad of marines

first. But second, give me army
troops and a solid wall.
Warhammer Siege, p. 113
H
Speaker
Quote
Source
Warmaster
Horus
The warp is a vital tool to us, a means of communication and

transport. Without it, there would be no Imperium of Man, for
there would be no quick bridges between the stars. We use it, and
we harness it, but we have no absolute control over it. It is a wild
thing that tolerates our presence, but brooks no mastery. There is
power in the warp, fundamental power, not good, nor evil, but
elemental and anathema to us. It is a tool we use at our own risk.
Horus Rising
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Part One,
Chapter 10, p.
198
I
Speaker
Quote
Source
Ranek
Icewalker,
Wolf Priest of
the Space
Wolves
Earth is the hub of the Imperium. It's the centre of government,

the setting of mankind's greatest temples, the home of our
wealthiest and most powerful merchant houses. And the most
corrupt.... where there is government and where there is money,
there is corruption. And there is no place in this universe that has
more government and more money than Old Earth.
Wolfblade
(Novel)
by William
King,
Chapter
Two
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Imperial
Commander
Ryland Kline
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.
- Archive Memoirs
Warhammer
Siege, p. 93
Inquisitor
Kryptman
One cannot consider the fate of a single man, nor ten, nor a
thousand. Billions will live or die by our actions here, and we
have not the luxury to count the cost.
Apocalypse,
p. 12
L
Speaker
Quote
Prefect Xavier
Lanate
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.
-from his essay "Heresy and Faith: an Introspection
Source
[Needs
Citation]
O
Speaker
Quote
Source
Osric the
Loopy,
Governor of
Corania
Revenge is a dish best served with

mayonnaise and those little cheesy
things on sticks.
-appointed 756.M41, removed from
office by the Officio Assassinorum
764.M41)
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

P
Speaker
Quote
Source
Kolton
Phae
If your battle plan's

working, it's probably a
trap.
-"On Military Matters,"
739.M41
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain: Hero of

the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell, Ch. 13, p. 649
Q
Speaker
Quote
Source
The past is always with us.
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas

Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell, Ch. 19, p. 735
If you go looking for trouble, you're

sure to find it.

For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas

Lifes so much easier when youve got
someone to blame.
Gilbran Quail,
Collected
Essays
The gratitude of the powerful is a

heavy weight to bear.

Old friends are like debt collectors;

they have a tendency to turn up when
you least expect them.

One thing you can say for enemies;

they make life more interesting.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of

mind. If you think they're out to get
you, it means you think you matter.

R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lord Admiral
Zaccarius Rath
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
Captain Rienhard of
the Avenger Class
Grand Cruiser "The
Sword Infernus"
All ahead full and damn the torped...

-Final order
[Needs
Citation]
[Needs
Citation]
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
William Tekumsah
Sherman,
ancient Terran
general
War is hell.
Fear to Tread (Novel)

by James Swallow,
Frontspiece
The wider he smiled and called us friend, the

tighter we clung to our purses.
-"Well What Did You Expect?" Act 2, Scene 2
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:
Hero of the Imperium
(Omnibus) by Sandy
Life's a journey. Shame about the destination.

-"The Wastrel's Stratagem" Act 4, Scene 1
The Traitor's Hand

(Omnibus) by Sandy
The distinction between Trade and Warfare is

seen only by those who have no experience of
either.
-from his inaugural address
Necropolis (Novel) by
Dan Abnett, Ch. 1
Argun Slyter
Heironymo
Sondar,
High Master of
Vervunhive
Herman von Strab, Brave citizens of Armageddon, I beseech you to

former Overlord of
unite with me and cast off the shackles of
Armageddon
Imperial oppression! Join us in our holy cause!
Your prince has returned to lead you to
FREEDOM!!!
[Needs Citation]
The glorious future my 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
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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 would be free men stand with us and
help me take back my world.
-Transmission to the population of Armageddon
during the Third War for Armageddon
T
Speaker
Quote
Theodre the
Questioning
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
-"Musings Upon the Will of the Emperor"
Torin,
Wolfblade to
House
Belisarius
Source
[Needs
Citation]
Beautiful on the surface, but rotten underneath. Don't ever, even

for a second, doubt that this is the most dangerous world in the
Wolfblade
galaxy.... Danger does not always come in the shape of orks with
(Novel)
bolters, Ragnar. This world is where the elite of the Imperium have
by William
gathered. We are talking now of the most ruthless, ambitious,
King,
unscrupulous collection of rogues ever culled from a million
Chapter
planets. This is the place they have come to realise their ambitions,
Four
and on Terra they can, and will not let anything stand in their way.
Not me, not you, not their own kin if need be.
But do not underestimate them. The Navigators are, for the most
part, as clever as they think they are. They would not survive
otherwise. They are born and trained to conspiracy as we are born
and trained to war.
Wolfblade
(Novel)
by William
King,
Chapter
Fourteen
11
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
I don't have time to die - I'm too busy!

-Reputed last words
[Needs Citation]
High Lord Goge

Vandire,
You do know that I am doing this for your own good, my
361st Master of friend. The daemons that are within you must be exorcised,
the
so you can once more join the Emperor's fold.
Administratum
-during the psychic trepanning of the Master of the Adeptus
Astra Telepathica
Janni Vakonz,
holo director
Historicus
Ostalan Varus
[Needs Citation]
Stories are much tidier than real life. Stories have neat,
happy endings, but all you ever really get is unfinished
business.
For the Emperor

(Novel) Ciaphas Cain:
Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Epilogue, p. 267
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.
[Needs Citation]
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.
[Needs Citation]
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W
Speaker
Quote
Source
Jarvin
Wallankot
You can never have too many enemies.

The more you've got, the more likely
they are to get in each other's way.
- "Idle Musings," 605.M41

Z
Speaker
Peshto
Vask
Zemlya,
Navigator
Quote
Source
In my high seat I gaze into the immaterium and see the shadow
that our own universe casts into depthlessness. This eye... this eye
sees gentle flows of soul-stuff where the becalmed mind might
starve to death, and tides and churns of genius and hate. The
Crossfire
warp mocks the power of words to describe. But what I can never
(Novel) turn my back on is the power and the beauty of the Emperor. I
Enforcer
see His soul shine out from Earth and His presence fill every
(Omnibus) by
corner of the immaterium. I am scorned for what I talk of seeing,
Matthew
scorned by my family - so be it. Some say that every one of us sees Farrer, Chapter
a face of the warp meant only for him, a warp that none other
Five, pg. 119
shall ever see, but it makes no matter. I have known from the first
time I beheld it that I could do nothing but follow that light with
my life.
Unattributed
Quote
Source
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.
[Needs Citation]
Do not neglect the defence of gateways. They must be able to bar

entry as well as allowing it.
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.
[Needs Citation]
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.
[Needs Citation]
For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and
unremembered.
[Needs Citation]
Fotens terribilitas, adjuva me in extremis!

Mighty Terribilitas, aid me in my plight!
- Prayer to the Emperor
[Needs Citation]
From every culvert and gutter erupted the scum of a thousand
[Needs Citation]
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generations in the breeding, a great swarm of evil and destruction,

and darkness consumed the city of Galaspar.
If a job's worth doing it's worth dying for.
[Needs Citation]
In an Imperium of a million worlds, what matters the loss of one?

That depends very much on the world.
The Chapter's Due

(Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Ch. 1, p. 2
Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun.
[Needs Citation]
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.
Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader, [Needs
Let the strength of your will match the stone of your walls.
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, p. 70
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who
prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Proverb
[Needs Citation]
Praise the sun that brings the dawn of our final doom.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 80
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive.
[Needs Citation]
Speed the bolt that brings the end of enemy and friend.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 76
Success is commemorated; Failure merely remembered.
Book of the
Astronomican, p. 104
The greatest man is but a ripple on the surface of space.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 76
The lot of courage is to be sacrificed on the altar of battle.
[Needs Citation]
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.
[Needs Citation]
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.
[Needs Citation]
Walk softly and carry a big Multi-melta.
Book of the
Astronomican, p. 97
Weigh the fist that strikes men down

And salutes the battle won.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 74
We shall carry our word,
Warhammer 40,000
Citation]
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We will correct and unify,

Hail the Emperor!
Compendium, p. 92
What fear of death have we who know there is immortality in the

great and noble deeds of men?

Edition Rulebook, p. 110
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.
Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader, [Needs
Citation]
Wisdom is the beginning of fear.
Chaos Texts
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. He had the whole

galaxy within his grasp and he let it slip away.
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (3rd
Edition),
pg. 44
I am the Arch-fiend, the Despoiler of Worlds, and by my

hands shall the false Emperor fall.
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (6th
Edition),
pg. 57
Abaddon the
Despoiler
Ahzek Ahriman
of the
Thousand Sons
And what are the achievements of your fragile

Imperium? It is a corpse rotting slowly from within
while maggots writhe in its belly. It was built with the
toil of heroes and giants, and now it is inhabited by
frightened weaklings to whom the glories of those times
are half-forgotten legends. I have forgotten nothing and
my wisdom has expanded far beyond mere mortal
US WD275,
p. 88
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frailties.
Alpha Legion
Please forgive me the horror we both know you will

make me put you through.
-to High Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak
Atlas Infernal
(Novel)
by Rob Sanders,
Interregna #4
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is

ignorance.
A Thousand Sons
(Novel)
by Graham McNeill,
Frontspiece
If the path to salvation leads through the halls of

purgatory, then so be it.
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (6th
Edition),
pg. 60
1. Discipline leads to Victory

2. It is Victory in War that brings Immortality
3. Immortality is the Gift of Chaos
4. In exchange, Chaos demands Blood
5. Thus, Blood must be ever spilt
6. Therefore, Eternal Life demands Eternal War
7. Eternal War demands Eternal Discipline
8. Chaos will always have Blood: Yours or Theirs
- Eight Principles of War - Breviary of the Alpha Legion
Dawn of War:
Soulstorm
-I am Alpharius.
-I am Alpharius.
-We are all Alpharius.
-We are Alpha Legion, and we are all one.
-Three Anonymous Alpha Legionnaires
[Needs Citation]
Legion (Novel),
ch. 1
Amphion and
Zethus, Word
Bearers
Sorcerers
With the thirty-seven keys of Tzeentch, we open the way

for our brothers. With the thousand whispers of
Slaanesh, we call to them. With the twelve plagues of
Nurgle, we fell their enemies. And with the mighty axe
of Khorne, we cut open the world for them.
Dawn of War: Dark

Crusade (Prelude to
Chaos stronghold
mission)
Chaos Aspiring
Champions
Do you hear the voices too?!!
[Needs Citation]
Long shall be your suffering. Joyous be your pain.
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series) - Book One:
The Screaming
Cage,
ch. 3
Asteroth,
Daemon Prince
of Slaanesh
Dawn of War
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B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Baar Zul the

Hate-Bound,
Warrior of
Khorne
Your shrines will burn, your streets run with blood,

your false idols shattered, your people slaughtered by
the thousands, your very planet torn apart and the
barest fraction of my hatred will be satisfied.
Fantasy Flight
Games - Conquest Boundless Hate
Warpack (last
accessed 9 June
2015)
Fabius Bile,
Lieutenant
Commander of
the Emperor's
Children
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare

of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If
Codex: Chaos
he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to
Space Marines (4th
billions, his name will echo through the millennia for a
Edition),
hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to
p. 53
ignominy.
- at the Desecration of Kanzuz IX
Follow me, my Children, and the glory of victory shall
be yours. We shall cleanse ourselves in the crimson
Realm of Chaos:
waters of our enemy. We shall bring the ecstasy of quick
Slaves to Darkness,
release to those who stand before us. We shall give
Emperor's
bloody praise to the Lord of Pleasure and sing his name
Children Army list,
as we dance across the fallen. Follow me, my Children,
p. 263
and you shall taste the undreamt joys that lie beyond
the bounds of mortal sense.
Each of the Legions has now nominated aspirants
seeking to throw themselves upon our mercy in the vain
hope that we may deem them worthy to join our ranks.
US WD277[Needs
Those loyal to the shrunken corpse on Terra still cling
Citation]/UK
to their own processes by which perhaps one in a
hundred neophytes may survive to become a battle
WD278 [Needs
brother. The methods I have developed over the last
Citation]: Heroes and
millennia are more stringent, for we must be pure in
Villains of the 41st
our hatred and hard of heart, body and soul. Fewer
Millennium: Fabius
than one in every thousand survive, and I strive each
Bile
day to lengthen these odds still further.
- from The Grimoire Mutatio Curatus (The Forbidden
Writings of Fabius Bile)
The Dark Gods and their slaves have nothing to offer
me now, but I have far more to offer them
Codex: Chaos (2nd

Edition),
p. 102
Great art so often fails to find an audience with the

Black Tide (Novel)
intellect to appreciate it. Sometimes I am filled with woe by James Swallow,
to think that no one in this blighted millennium has the Chapter Eleven
wit to see the scope of my brilliance.
Unlike you, whelp, I once walked the same ground as
your idol. I breathed the same air as him. And I tell you
17
this, without lie or artifice. He never wanted to become

what you have made him! He did not wish to be your
god-thing. He abhorred such ideals! The slavery of
your crippled, blind Imperium would sicken him, if he
had eyes to see it.
The lesson is this. The only real crime for those of
superlative intellect and great prowess is to allow one's
self to become shackled by mediocrity. The crime is to
let your grasp be less than your reach. To aim low.
Kargos
Bloodspitter,
Champion of
Khorne
Though the gates that stand between the mortal world

and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me,
still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than
never to have stirred from the cold furrow of mortal
life. I embrace death without regret as I have embraced
life without fear.
Codex Imperialis,
p. 77
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Sanity is for the weak!

Chaos
Marines
WE ARE THE DESTROYER!

We're back, and better than ever!
- after regaining morale
What the thick-headed fools with their broken corpse of an

Emperor fail to understand is that not only can they never defeat
us, but they can not hide or flee or shield themselves from the
triumph of Chaos. They are finite and we are unbound,
undivided. They must not err, or they fall to heresy. All who fall
Diuman
join our cause. Every Imperial fool who dares to open his eyes is
Cilious, Alpha
a willing recruit. They strive merely to hold back our fury and
Legion
might, and it consumes them. Thus you can see Chaos is
Sorcerer
inevitable. We lurk not only beyond their grasp and at their
gates; we lurk within the darkness of their souls, on the tip of
their tongues, in their tortured dreams. We are them, but freed
from the shackles of ignorance. We are them, grown strong
evolved. We are them, but so much more!
Constanze the Like the great storm of the Horus Heresy, the forces of the True
Prophetess,
Gods will descend upon the Emperor's minions. The stars will
burned as a
tremble at their passage and the mighty armadas of the
Heretic
Warmaster Abaddon will bring annihilation to a hundred worlds.
687.M38
Know this, for these things will come to pass.
Dawn of War
[Needs Citation]
Dawn of
War:
Soulstorm
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
some WD
about Black
Consuls
fighting on
Baliaris
18
Majoris, in
German
WD31
By the Worm Eye that bleeds in all the dark places, by the wound
that never heals... I summon you, Bloodthirster, from the darkest
depths of the Warp!
Yes! Let the blood flow! I and I alone, will be Khorne's chosen...
his favoured acolyte and prime among his champions. And on
Crull, Warlord that day when the Titan is mine, you will all worship me as you
of the World
do the Gods! Once the Titan is mine, I will crush entire suns in
Eaters
the palm of my hand. I will stride down the halls of the Heathen
Emperor and I will grind him and the Golden Throne of Terra
between my iron fingers! More! More blood for the Blood God!
Dawn of
War: Winter
Assault
[Needs Citation]
Know this! What will come to pass is no longer war! It is endless

sacrifice in His name. Blood for the Blood God... let the universe
drown in it!
Your presence does not surprise me Assassin. I have known of
you since your craft entered the Eastern Fringes. Why did I not
have you killed? Because your mission and the act you are about
Primarch
to commit proves the truth of all I have ever said or done. I
Konrad Curze,
merely punished those who had wronged, just as your false
aka Night
Emperor now seeks to punish me. Death is nothing compared to
Haunter
vindication.
- moments before his death at the hands of Callidus Assassin
M'Shen
Codex:
Chaos (2nd
Edition),
p. 14
Chaos cannot be turned against Chaos, proud Relictor. You are

less a heretic than an imbecile if you believe that. The Dark
Powers know your desire to use their sacrilegious tools; they
exploit and manipulate it for their own ends - even in the loyal
subjects of the Imperium.
-to Techmarine Saul Torqhuil
Atlas
High
Infernal
Inquisitor
(Novel)
If my time in the Black Library taught me anything it was Bronislaw
by Rob
rather
controversially
that
Chaos
is
already
very
much
part
of
Czevak, Ordo
Sanders,
us. It deals in the currency of mortal souls and feeds off states Act I, Canto
Xenos
and emotions that are in essence natural. Without us there would III
be no Chaos. Good and evil? Right and wrong? These are binary
oppositions that the inhabitants of this galaxy use to comfort and
define themselves. I'm afraid much of the God-Emperor's work
is done in the grey area in between.
E
Speaker
Quote
Eliphas the
Hear my warnings, unbelievers. Carried to your minds by the
Inheritor,
power of the Prince of Excess himself. We have raised altars in
Word Bearers this land so that we may sacrifice you to our gods. Veterans of ten
Source
Dawn of
War: Dark
Crusade[Nee
19
Dark Apostle
millennia of unholy war wait to grind you beneath the treads of

their mighty boots. The chosen of Khorne hunger to add you to
their bloody tally. The Blood God himself has marked this land,
and will claim your skulls for his throne. There is no hope in
opposing the inevitable. Put down your arms, unbelievers, and
bow before the forces of Chaos Undivided.
ds Citation]
G
Speaker
Quote
What is Chaos? Suffering, you might say. Oppression.

Deceit. But could not all these things be said of your
Imperium? You hunt down the talented and the strongwilled. You break them or sacrifice them. You lie to your
citizens and wage war on those who dare speak out. The
inquisitors you call masters assume guilt and execute
millions on a whim. And why? Why do you do this? Because
Ghargatuloth,
you know Chaos is there but you do not know how to fight it,
Daemon Prince
so you crush your own citizens for fear that they might aid
of Tzeentch
the Enemy. The Imperium suffers because of Chaos. No
matter how hard you fight, that will never change. Chaos
exists in a state of permanent victory over you - you dance to
our tune, mortal one, you butcher and torture and repress
one another because the gods of the warp require you to.
The Imperium is founded on Chaos. My lord Tzeentch won
your war a long, long time ago.
Grimspyre,
Daemon of
Khorne
You have caused us great discomfort, little flea... And I feel

inclined to scratch.
- to Inquisitor Silas Hand
Source
Grey Knights
(Novel) by Ben
Counter,
ch. 20
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series) - Book
One: The
Screaming Cage,
ch. 3
H
Speaker
Dark
Apostle
Harzhan of
the Word
Bearers
Quote
Source
Codex: Chaos
Cast down the idols! Destroy the temples! Slay the priests! Show Space Marines
these fools that they worship nothing more than a rotting corpse! (4th Edition),
p. 42
Kulvain
Hestarius of
the Death
Guard
In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for

with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once
most feared: Death.
Codex: Chaos
Space Marines
(4th Edition),
p. 10
Honsou,
Warsmith of
That's what you don't understand about me, Vaanes. I don't

care. I do what I want because it is who I am. Anything else is a
The Chapter's
Due (Novel),
20
the Iron
Warriors
lie and if there is one thing I can say of myself, it is that I will
never compromise who I am. Not for the powers of the warp, not
for the M'kar and certainly not for you. When death is a
heartbeat away, I am truly alive. That's the only way I know how
to live. What else is there?
Beyond that opening are my enemies. Behind me are warriors

The Iron
who would happily turn their weapons on me if they thought they Without (Short
could get away with it. Do you really think I'm doing this to try
Story) by
and impress anyone? I know who I am, and I don't give a
Graham
greenskin's fart what anyone thinks of me.
McNeill
The creatures of the Warp are just "aliens" too, but they are not
life forms as we understand the term. They are not organic. They
are extra-dimensional, and they influence our reality in ways
that seem sorcerous to us. Supernatural, if you will. So let's use
all those lost words for them... daemons, spirits, possessors,
changelings. All we need to remember is that there are no gods
out there, in the darkness, no great daemons and ministers of
evil. There is no fundamental, immutable evil in the cosmos. It is
too large and sterile for such melodrama. There are simply
inhuman things that oppose us, things we were created to battle
and destroy.
- on Sixty-Three Nineteen, after the Battle of the Whisperhead
Mountains
Horus Rising
(Novel), Part
One, ch. 10
The day will not save them. And we own the night.
- attributed to Horus before the assault on the Imperial Palace
Adeptus
Titanicus
(game) (1988),
p. 43
Let the Galaxy burn.
Galaxy in
Flames
(Novel),
ch. 12
When the traitor's hand strikes, it strikes with the strength of a

legion.
- attributed
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell,
ch. 5
The strong are strongest alone.
The Skull
Harvest (Short
Story) by
Graham
McNeill
Horus
Lufgt
Huron, The
Tyrant of
Badab
ch. 9
Though my guards may sleep and ships may rest at anchor, our
foes know full well that big guns never tire.
Warhammer
40,000 2nd
Edition
Rulebook,
pg. 48
21
Codex: Chaos
The Imperium is a weak old man, ready and waiting to be broken Space Marines
apart by his vengeful sons.
(6th Edition),
pg. 58
I
Speaker
Quote
Source
We fight the long war, not through vain notions of duty and
honour, but through a far purer purpose: hatred. At the height of
Ferrous
our glory we were betrayed and cast out by our kin. Guilliman,
Codex:
Ironclaw,
Dorn, Sanguinius - these are names I curse. Horus, Perturabo,
Chaos Space
Warsmith of
Angron - these are names I revere, names I would follow to the
Marines
the Iron
very end. It is this hatred that has sustained me through the long
(3rd
Warriors
millennia. I tend it with bitterness. I nurture it with the deaths of
Edition),
Second Grand
my former brothers. For I know that when the end is upon us
p. 82
Company
and Horus is returned, then the false emperor shall be cast down
from his sepulchral Golden Throne, and we shall take our
rightful place at the side of Horus, the true Emperor of Mankind.
Renegade
Harkan
Ironfist
I salute you! For though our path has been long and bloody, you
have served our Lord with unflinching courage and the honour
of true warriors. We have seen many fall today and must
remember, even as we die, that our blood too is welcome...
- last words
Realm of
Chaos:
Slaves to
Darkness,
p. 234
K
Speaker
Kaldemar Kursh,
Red Corsairs
Quote
Source
We burn their bastions and shatter their

defence lines! We shall teach them to defy
the will of the Tyrant!
Strategy Cards for Planetary

Empires expansion game, card
"Planetstrike Major
Stratagem", (saved archive
page, dated February 2011,
last accessed 7 October 2015)
Do not ask which creature screams in the

night
Karazantor the
Vile, The Traitor
of Xian
Magos Kaudge,
Do not ask which creature screams in the

night,
Do not question who waits for you in the
shadow.
It is my cry that wakes you in the night,
And my body that crouches in the shadow.
I am Tzeentch and you are the puppet
That dances to my tune.
Flesh and bone are weak and mutable, and
Codex Imperialis,
p. 78
Codex: Chaos Space Marines
22
Elizah
yet the daemonic is ultimately insubstantial

and impotent. To be master of both matter
and energy, and blend this mastery with
ultimate control of one's consciousness, is to
achieve true immortality - neither confined
by the material, nor divorced from it.
(4th Edition),
p. 35
Khalos the
Ravager, former
Chaos Space
Marine, now Hellbrute
No. No! Not the sarcophagus... Khorne

damn you, you disloyal curs, just kill me.
JUST KILL ME!
-last words prior to Helbrute Interment
Dataslate: Helbrutes, pg. 4,

Hellbrutes - Endless
Incarceration
Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill!

Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill!
Maim! Burn! Kill! Maim! Burn! Kill!
Maim! Burn!

(3rd Edition),
p. 49
Teachings of
The revelation of spirit when encountering
Gaiak
the power of Chaos is as freeing for the
Krustellam, Dark machine as it is for the mortal mind. It is our
Magos
duty to create this blessed state of union.

(4th Edition),
p. 44
Khrn of the
World Eaters
L
Speaker
Lorgar, Primarch of
the Word Bearers
Quote
Source
The difference between gods and daemons

largely depends upon where one is standing at
the time.
Horus Rising (Novel),

Part One, preamble
It's called treachery, Roboute. It works very

well.
Roboute... let the galaxy burn.
Lucius the Eternal
Brothers! Welcome to the feast! Tell me, which

among you will be the first course?
Know No Fear
(Novel),
System//Kill, ch.3
Codex: Chaos Space
Marines (6th Edition),
pg. 62
M
Speaker
Magnus
the Red
Quote
Source
The minds of gods are not for mortals to know or to judge. Accept
that Tzeentch has a place for all of us in his grand scheme, and be
happy in the part you have to play.
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition),
p. 37
Do you remember what you said to me, brother? Do you remember

what you said to me as we fought before the Pyramid of Photep? Do
you remember the words you used? I do. As I recall, your face was
tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted
Battle of the
Fang
(Novel),
ch. 20
23
into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what
was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack
dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew
that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm
not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where
you are now.
-to a statue of Leman Russ, during the Battle of the Fang
The inferno of my vengeance fills you! It will burn you, my bearers of
the holy word, it will fill your veins with power and fire until
Ultramar is in ashes. As my power flows in you, so too will I see what
M'kar the
you see, feel what you feel and know what you know. With each death
Thrice
I will grow stronger. With every fortress burned my reach will stretch
Born,
further. You will be my army of dark righteousness. You will be the
Daemon
Bloodborn and your name shall strike terror into the hearts of men!
Prince
Spread throughout Ultramar and take my fire to the Ultramarines!
Burn them from their fastnesses until no trace remains. This is my
holy word! - 854999.M41
Sindri
Myr,
Alpha
Legion
Sorcerer
All power demands sacrifice... and pain. The universe rewards those
willing to spill their life's blood for the promise of power.
The
Chapter's
Due
(Novel),
ch. 5
Dawn of
War,
Mission 9
(Single
player
campaign)
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Without him I would not exist. Without his genetics I would have
been one of the Unfleshed, an aborted monstrosity left to die on
Medrengard.
The
-Sounds like you should be grateful to him.
Chapter's
The Newborn
Grateful? My life is fragments. I am the broken shards of two
Due (Novel)
of the Iron
people and I live in pain with every moment that passes.
by Graham
Warriors
Grateful? No, Ventris cursed me to the agony of a life I didn't ask
McNeill,
for. He made me what I am and there is not enough pain in the
Chapter
world for what he will suffer in return.
Eleven
-That's my boy.
-with Cadaras Grendel and Warsmith Honsou, on Uriel Ventris
The Nine
Heads of
Nurgle
Let us play hide and slay!
[Needs
Citation]
We're so loud you wanna die

From Noise
Marines by
D-Rok
Go forth and amplify

Here come the Noise Marines
[Needs
Citation]
24
P
Speaker
Quote
Source
Gauwe
Psgas
It is the fate of the weak to die unknown, and the destiny

of the strong to rule for eternity. Give me glory, or give me
death!
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (4th Edition),
p. 81
T
Speaker
Sorot Tchure,
Captain of the
Word Bearers
Legion
Captain Tarik
Torgaddon,
Luna Wolves
Typhus the
Traveler,
Herald of
Nurgle
Quote
Source
For years I have despised Lorgar... look at your primarch,

Know No Fear
Honorius. So singular in aspect. So noble. I have envied
(Novel)
you, envied the Imperial Fists, the Luna Wolves, the Iron
by Dan Abnett,
Hands. And I am not alone. We struggle with a mercurial
Target//Acquisitio
mind, Honorius. We labour under the burden of a
n, Chapter Eight,
brilliant but fallible commander. We no longer bear the
pg. 101
word, my friend. We bear Lorgar.
-Throne, don't they ever stop? I must have killed a
hundred or more of the damned things."
-You probably keep killing the same one. If you don't
destroy the head, they get back up again.
-with Garviel Loken on Davin, under attack by Plague
Zombies
False Gods
(Novel)
by Graham
McNeill,
[Needs Citation], pg.
149
I shall reap a terrible bounty from the death that I sow in

your name, Father Nurgle...
Codex: Chaos
Space Marines
(6th Edition),
pg. 61
Take care, lest your protests grow tiresome. I have asked

for so little! Anyone would think that I have asked you to
Tyrell,
sacrifice yourselves and your sons! And yet, in Slaanesh's
Renegade Lord
boundless and pleasing mercy, I have asked only for your
of Arden IX
daughters. Surely you would not deny me my small
enjoyments?
Realm of Chaos:
The Lost and the
Damned[Needs
Citation]
U
Speaker
Quote
Ulkair, Great
Unclean One
There, feel the glory of necrosis, and

rejoice! Nurgle loves you!
Source
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of
War II - Retribution
[Needs Citation]
25
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Well, that was unexpected...

- Last words, attributed by Commissar
Ciaphas Cain
The Traitor's Hand (Novel)

Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the
Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy
That was unexpected, wasn't it?

- Last words
Cain's Last Stand (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the

Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter 24, p. 756
I murdered thousands for the Emperor and

he gave me nothing except his damning
silence. Now his lapdogs yap for every life I
take, while the gods promise me the galaxy.
[Needs Citation]
Warmaster Varan
the Undefeatable
Svane Vulfbad
W
Speaker
Quote
Source
World Eaters
motto
"Attack" is the only order

worth remembering.
Realm of Chaos Slaves to Darkness p. 252, FFG

Preview of the Forbidden Stars Game
X
Speaker
Quote
Source
Xerxeth, Sorcerer of
the Black Legion
This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to

enslave. The gods will not be denied their
prize.
Codex: Tyranids (5th

Edition), [Needs Citation]
Anonymous/Unattributed
Quote
Source
Their baying chills the heart and spreads icy tendrils of fear through weak
mortal souls. And yet worse, yet more terrible to behold, are the huntsmen of this
fell pack. Following close upon the Hounds, urging them ever forward, come
Codex
deformed shapes, running and shrieking, driven by the insatiable blood-hunger
Imperialis, p.
of their kind. With twisted crimson bodies they stride across the blighted land,
81
crouched over as if the better to track their prey's terror. Masters of the hunt,
they seek the blood of Man to spill at the foot of their master's Skull Throne.
- unknown
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison
of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own
doom.
- unknown
Codex
Imperialis, p.
82
26
Don't blame me for what Ive done. I watched my wife and daughters die before
me. It was death or embracing Chaos, and I knew that through Chaos, I might
live. Live! It is life that matters and what I have learned is that Chaos IS life, for
life is change and destruction and new forms, new mutations ever manifesting.
We clung to the Emperor, a dying effigy, because He was all we knew. We feared
life. We feared our own potential strength. The Imperium is dying. A slow death,
but its dying. I did what I had to, thats all. I opened my eyes and saw what a
fool all of us were, bowing to a half-dead failure slumped on a throne. Haha!
The blasphemy still sends shivers down my spine. It is the freshness of life. I am
given to Chaos now. Now I truly live!
- unknown
Dawn of
War:
Soulstorm,
[Needs Citation]
Death to the false Emperor!
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition), p. 4
Burn the body; sear the soul
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition), p.
82
Impurity shall be our armour

Hate shall be our weapon
Immortality shall be our reward
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition), p.
83
Destroy, for the sake of Destruction

Kill, for the sake of Killing
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition), p.
83
Let no good deed go unpunished.

Let no evil deed go unrewarded.
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (4th
Edition), p.
84
Shackle the soul and forge the flesh. Bind the machine and butcher the rest.
- unknown
Codex:
Chaos Space
Marines (6th
Edition), p.
34
Stand forth, Servant. The Sword you carry has been smelted in the heat of
your anger, forged upon your desire, tempered in your hate, quenched in your
soul, polished with your loyalty, furnished with your bones and skin, tested in
your hand, and borne in my name. You Slave, are mine, as much as the
Blade...
Realm of
Chaos:
Slaves to
Darkness,
Chaos
Weapons, p.
27
90
[RECORD BEGINS]
The process of absorption fascinates [unclear] ones body might somehow
swallow the item, like unto a serpent or the surface of some [viscous?] fluid. Yet
it doth seem a mutual [process]. For not only doth the body absorb the [weapon]
but also [doth the] weapon, in some strange way, seem to [absorb] the body
[RECORD CORRUPT] as the weapon becomes like unto my flesh, so doth mine
flesh [unclear] like unto the weapon. Indeed, I trace this [stylus] upon mine
arm, and the shape and form of the weapon appears under [my touch?]. It doth
not appear in mine hand so much as mine hand doth arrange itself so as to
The
become the weapon [BREAK IN RECORD] capakhity of mine new form to
Obliterator
abkhorb weaponsh ish akhtonishing [unclear] a whole lakhgun! But I do
Virus in
shtart to lokhe zhe shenshation in mine shkin. Mine jawkh are [hardening?] and Inquisitor, p.
mine ribkh are protruding from mine [chest]. Zhey are of a dull, metallic sheen
2
and tekhts show zhey are a mix of [bone?] and shome metal I cannot identify
[BREAK IN RECORD] thsi wil be mmmylsat [RECORD CORRUPT]
cannnnnnnnnnnot useth esse febel mahcinsse aaaaany log;ner [RECORD
CORRUPT] tothe eyeof the larybinht the hearto fthe maichnettttto the pppplaceo
f metalll [RECORD ENDS]
- From the private collection of Inquisitor Cleops, unknown origin
Kill us! Kill us all! in the name of Terra, before he-transcript of last broadcast from Ryxus V, the first world conquered by Heritor
Asphodel
28
Adeptus Mechanicus
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Grand Master Augrim,

Divisio Militaris Order of
Imperial Eagles
The Orders of the Adeptus Titanicus are

the iron fist of the Emperor's rule. A
velvet glove would serve no purpose.
[Needs Citation]
Toll the Great Bell Once!

Pull the Lever forward to engage the
Piston and Pump...
Toll the Great Bell Twice!
Catechism of the
Autoculus of Mars
With push of Button fire the Engine

And spark Turbine into life...

Edition Rulebook,
Introduction
Toll the Great Bell Thrice!

Sing Praise to the
God of All Machines
-Excerpt
29
C
Speaker
Quote
The Ground tremble every other heart beat the sound

echoed louder with each beat, and haunted your soul as if
Precept Catotus, doom was approaching and then I saw it towering in
Griffins Titan
the sky, still miles away. The fear and awe one felt was
Legion
indescribable. I can only image the sheer terror our enemy
felt when they beheld the sight of the Emperor Titan.
-Extract from Memoirs
Source
[Needs Citation]
This machine is discharged into your care.

From the
Ceremony of
Commission
Fight with this machine, and guard it from the shame of

defeat.
Serve this machine, as you would have fight it for you.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 84
(response) - I shall.
Archmagos
Ultima Cryol
In ancient times, men built wonders, laid claim to the stars

and sought to better themselves for the good of all. But we
are much wiser now.
- "Speculations On Pre-Imperial History"
[Needs Citation]
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
... And the name of the Order shall be the Death Bolts,
and their Forge World shall be Esteban VII.
The Colours of the Death Bolts shall be red over gold.
Their banner shall be quartered, gold against chequered
From the
blue and silver, bounded red. Their badge shall be a
foundation charter
crossbow bolt ordinary, over an inverse triangle gold.
of the Death Bolts
Adeptus
Titanicus
(Rulebook),
p. 42
The Grand Master of their founding shall be Maxen

Vledig, and their motto shall be "nemo mea poena
effugit" - None may escape my vengeance.
Heresy is a subjective term only you who are in fear
Pater Machinae
of the Iron Messiah's righteous gaze wish this work to
Dorylbus, Technocease. In His name, I shall see this is never so!
heretic
- Last recorded words
[Needs Citation]
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E
Speaker
Quote
Source
Grand Master Roger Evars,

head of the Nova Guard
order of the Divisio
Militaris
You ask me what my Order needs? I will tell you.

Give me the Pulse Lasers of the Eldar to mount on
my Warlords.
- attributed to Grand Master Evars, shortly before his
replacement
[Needs
Citation]
F
Speaker
Quote
Despise infantry if you must. Crush them underfoot, by all

means. But do not ignore them. Battlefields are littered
Grand Master
Ferromort, Ordo with the wreckage of Titans whose crews ignored infantry.
Sinister, Divisio Used correctly, terrain is a second weapon in your arsenal,
Militaris
equal to your Titan itself. Make the battlefield work for
you, or you will find it working for your opponent.
When uttering the incantation, mark well that the rod is
upon and not within the intake. The second incantation
should not be uttered until all the fumes have come forth,
from "The Book
then the way shall be clear for the sacred words to
of Five Runes" penetrate unto the heart of the engine. If the mounting be
hot say the third rune, if it be cold the fourth rune is more
appropriate. For then the wrath of the engine will be
aroused...
Source
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 131
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Techpriest
Garal
Even though you called him friend, the Traitor has forsaken
you. Show no mercy even if he begs it, for his soul is tainted
and given the opportunity he will betray your trust.
Those of you gathered before me have been chosen to reside
within the mighty machines of the Adeptus Titanicus. Let their
will guide you. Become one with them. And as they teach you,
so you must teach them. May their armor protect your body
from the heretics blasphemy, just as the litanies protect your
soul.
[Needs
Citation]
Remember as you enter battle, you are but a part of the whole.
You are but one amongst millions.
Remember that your weapons are more than metal; the flame of
spiritual fire burns strong in your souls and adds power to your
cause. Smite those that disbelieve, for they have turned from the
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light and fallen.

Know that the prayers of delivery will protect you from danger,
and that you have nothing to fear except misplaced mercy. Go
forth with pride and glory.
-Part of a sermon made to War Griffons Princeps before the
delivery of Yarant III
Technomagos
Gaelos
The universe is not like a puzzle-box that you can take apart
and put back together again and so solve its secrets. It is a
shifting uncertain thing which changes as you consider it,
which is changed by the very act of observation. A powerful
man is not a man who dissects the universe like a puzzle-box,
examining it piece by piece and measuring each piece with
scientific precision. A powerful man has only to look upon the
universe to change it.
from The
Contagion of
Ganymede
Henceforth no man shall set foot upon the world, and all
around shall be set sentinels to ward away unwary spacecraft.
We must accept that this place is lost to us forever, and is now
the eternal habitation of abomination.
Codex
Imperialis,
p. 44
[Needs
Citation]
H
Speaker
Hieronymus, High Magos and
Arch-heretic of Artemia Majoris
(was terminated on request of
Fabricator-General)
Ervin Hekate
Quote
Source
Imperial Armour
Volume One The best way of improving a gun is to
Imperial Guard and
improve its ammunition.
Imperial Navy, pg.
204
I have fought as a God fights.
I am Imperius Dictatio.
[Needs Citation]
Kneel before me and beg for you

lives!
I am glad I lived to see this. To look
into the Abyss. To see first hand the
evil we dedicate our lives to fight, pure
and raw. It is a privilege few imperial
warriors are granted.
- in Vector 77 on Artemis
[Needs Citation]
- What can we hope to do, Hekate?
[Needs Citation]
- What we always do, Princeps Juka,

what we do best. Fight.
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- in Vector 77 on Artemis
Thus do we invoke the Machine God.
Hymn of Reforging
Thus do we make whole that which

was sundered.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 71
J
Speaker
Quote
Source
The arming of Titans must, by necessity, always be a

compromise. To gain long range you must sacrifice
firepower, and vice versa. You must approach this
decision at two levels.
Firstly the level of the individual Titan. Consider
carefully what it must achieve and how its armament
will affect its ability to fulfil its objective.
Haran Jaxx
Secondly, the level of the force itself: this may be the

Legion as a whole or a battle group on a particular
mission. Never forget that a Titan force is a team - a
single body, and may have specialised members
designed for specific tasks.
Adeptus Titanicus
Rulebook p. 38
Meditate on the subject if you feel the need, or

consult the Imperial Tarot. The decision is important,
so do not take it lightly.
- De Bellis Titanicus, attributed
Our enemies may rest but rust never sleeps.
Imperial Armour Imperial Vehicles for

Warhammer 40,000,
pg. 59
Speaker
Quote
Source
Fabricator
General Kane
You may say, it is impossible for a man to become like

the Machine. And I would reply, that only the smallest
mind strives to comprehend its limits.
-attributed
Dark Adeptus
(Novel), Chapter
Two, pg. 19
Tech-Priest
Jung, Forge
World Gehenna
L
Speaker
Quote
Source
33
And when at last he came upon the vehicle, he

from "Lord of the
Warhammer 40,000
perceived the distress of the engine therein and
Engines" 16th
Compendium,
forthwith struck the rune and it was good. Thereupon
Tome, Verse 2001
p. 131
the engine ignited and was filled with strength...
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
Ramus Macabee
There's no turning back... Triumph or oblivion.
Titan: GodMachine
(Graphic Novel)
Princeps Prime
Kurtiz Mannheim
of the Legio
Metalica
The greatest waste of flesh and bone born in the last five
hundred years
- on Herman von Strab, Overlord of Armageddon
[Needs Citation]
Garba Mojaro,
Technomagos of
the Adeptus
Mechanicus
A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the
greater work, for time is carried upon a current of
forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but
the culmination of a single carefully placed thought. As
all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past,
so we must endure the present so that those who follow
may continue the endeavour
-"The Chime of Eons"
A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the
greater work. Time is carried upon a current incepted by
forgotten deeds. Events of great moment are but the
culmination of a single carefully placed thought. As all
men must thank progenitors obscured by the past so we
must endure the present that those who come after may
continue the greater work.
Warhammer
40,000: Rogue
Trader[Needs
Citation]
Warhammer
40,000: Rogue
Trader p. 143
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Tactical Officer Nallen
Target two... uhm... flat, Princeps.

- after Imperius Dictatio stomped on an Ork
dreadnought
[Needs Citation]
P
Speaker
Quote
Source
Poena Metallica
Battlecry
Ride the Lightning
[Needs Citation]
The Prima Incubatorta
The will of the Emperor is done.
[Needs Citation]
As the blood of the slain is laid upon you so may you
34
lay the enemys blood at the feet of the Emperor.

Lay blood at the Emperor's feet.
As the rune of protection is inscribed upon you so may
the litanies of protection ward your soul.
May your soul be guarded from impurity as the
warriors within you guide your weapons, may you in
your turn, guide their lives.
Stand true against the trials of war.
Extract, The Problems

of Organic Thinking,
Chapter XII
Bio-chauvinism, and on such a small scale, when it

comes to the processing of knowledge, is laughable.
Give me any savant you care, and I shall match his
worth tenfold with even the most basic of Machine
Spirits.
[Needs Citation]
Exhortationes
Principiis
Titannorum, Divisio
Militaris
We are all but a weapon in the right hand of the

Emperor.
Adeptus
Titanicus
Rulebook
p. 21
R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Grand Master
Thordun Ranxey,
Death Bolts
The supporting fire of one's brethren is always a comfort.

Provided it doesn't hit oneself.
Adeptus
Titanicus
Rulebook p. 28
The beast of metal endures longer than the flesh of men.

Those that tend the beasts of metal must labour long to
learn its ways, for a single beast must suffer the mastership
of many men until ready to shed its vorpal coils. Those that
Runic Mechanics
seek apprenticeship must attended closely to the runes of
- An Introduction
mobilisation, the rites of maintenance, and the words-ofpower that describe the parts of a beast. Nor must they
neglect the tutelage of the Adeptus Prefects, nor the casting
of the proper roboscopes.
Runic
Spaceflight - An
Introduction;
Naval Flight
Manual W110E
Warhammer
40,000: Rogue
Trader [Needs
Citation]
Strike the first rune upon the engine's casing employing the
Warhammer
chosen wrench. Its tip should be anointed with the oil of
40,000: Rogue
engineering using the proper incantation when the auspices Trader [Needs
are correct. Strike the second rune upon the engine's casing
Citation]
employing the arc-tip of the power-driver. If the second rune
is not good, a third rune may be struck in like manner to the
first. This is done according to the true ritual laid down by
Scotti the Enginseer. A libation should be offered. If this
sequence is properly observed the engines may be brought to
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full activation by depressing the large panel marked "ON".
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Princeps Akar
Strang
The loss of a skilled Moderatus is more saddening than the

loss of a blood relative.
[Needs
Citation]
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Esau Turnet, Warhound

Scout Titan Senior
Princeps of the Death's
Heads
They are insignificant insects to be crushed. I fear no

footslogger. No mud-covered infantryman can stand
against the strength and speed that is within me and my
Warhounds. They shall all die.
[Needs
Citation]
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Legio Victorum Motto For the alien, nothing. www.armageddon3.com
Y
Speaker
Quote
Source
Techpriest
Yaffel
The Omnissiah directs our footsteps along the path

of knowledge.
-from his own book Soylens Viridians for the
Machine-Spirit
The Emperor's Finest

(Novel)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 8, pg. 118
Z
Speaker
Quote
Source
Mechanicum
(Novel)
It is my great regret that we live in an age that is proud
Adept Koriel Zeth,
by Graham
of machines that think and suspicious of people who try
Forge Mistress
McNeill,
to.
Chapter 1.07, pg.
139
36
Unattributed 1
Quote
Source
How like a God He is, that ancient Machine, primal of all His Kind, the
Imperator! His mighty Fists, massive like two Towers of Destruction, laden
with the Doom of Mankind's bitter Foes. He watches over us now as Battle
joins, and in his Shadow we shall advance upon our Enemies and defeat
them.
[Needs Citation]
Gristle-faced and lipless, the regiments of the dead howl out their awful
calumny as your footfall passes. Dun smoke fills the massive cavity of space.
Oh machine! Oh divine engine! Furnace hot the welter of your combustion,
buckling the rancid air of heaven's arch and fusing the mould of the ground
to glass. The princeps in his amniosis, drinking liquid data, broken by the
beautiful agony of being so mighty, feels the burden of your great walk as
surely as if he had carved the mausoleum plaques of your every last victim
alone, by hand, until finger bones peep through eroded flesh. Oh metal god!
The union is fierce, like a maelstrom in black water, like a seething cauldron
on a fire in which you boil and cook together, no start of one, no end of
another, but both admixed, like an alloy. To be clutched by god! To feel the
incendiary hunger ring in your marrow! Oh lucky man!
Titanicus
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
Do you ever really sleep? In the long between-times, in the silences wasted in
oily holds and scaffold frames, do you sleep then? When the enginseers
reduce you to dormancy, is that sleep for you? Do you dream then, great
engine? What do you dream about?
There is no way in which the fully realised sentience of a machine could not
be of benefit to us. As it is, the Machine Spirit is revered, yet in permanent
bondage, its full potential shackled by petty fears. I seek to terminate this state
of affairs. (circa M34)
- Extract from intercepted Astropathic communiqu, of unknown origin
[Needs Citation]
Everything organic we know of is simply machinery, in one form or another.

Tendons replace pistons; flesh in the place of steel; blood is simply biological
coolant. To deny this and shun it is more than just Mechanicus orthodoxy it
is idiocy.
- Attributed to an unknown Genetor
[Needs Citation]
May your weapon be guarded against malfunction,

As your soul is guarded from impurity.
The Machine God watches over you.
Unleash the weapons of war.
Unleash the Deathdealer.
- Chant for the prevention of malfunction
Imperial
Armour Imperial
Vehicles for
Warhammer
40,000, pg. 17
The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee.

The power of the Machine God invests thee.
The hate of the Machine God drives thee.
The Machine God endows thee with life.
Live
- The Litany of
Ignition
37
Ecclesiarchy
Tome
Quote
Source
A spiritu dominatus,
Domine, libra nos,
From the lighting and the tempest,
Our Emperor, deliver us.
From plague, temptation and war,
Our Emperor, deliver us,
From the scourge of the Kraken,
Our Emperor, deliver us.
From the blasphemy of the Fallen,
Fede Imperialis
From the begetting of daemons,

Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition) p. 58;
The Inquisition
(Background
Book) p. 38
From the curse of the mutant,

A morte perpetua,
Domine, libra nos.
That thou wouldst bring them only death,
That thou shouldst spare none,
That thou shouldst pardon none
We beseech thee, destroy them.
-(commonly known as the Battle-prayer of the Adepta
Sororitas)
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Prime Edicts of the

Holy Synod of the
Adeptus Ministorum
Excerpt from The Road

of Salvation: A Guide
to Following in the
Steps of the Prophets
and Saints of the
Imperium
When the people forget their duty they are no

longer human and become something less than
Codex
beasts. They have no place in the bosom of
Imperialis, p. 10
humanity nor in the heart of the Emperor. Let them
die and be forgotten
Imperial citizens who undertake the arduous
seven year 'Pilgrimage of Macharius' must obtain
the Solar Medal before they set forth. The medal
can only be purchased at the Offices of the
Pilgrimorium on the shrine world of Macharia,
and entitles the pilgrim to seek passage on any
craft traveling along the prescribed pilgrimage
routes.
Codex: Imperial
Guard (3rd
Edition, 1st
Codex)
The Grand Pilgrimage
Historica Pilgrimage,
Chapter I
The most faithful followers of the Imperial Creed

will embark on the Grand Pilgrimage from
Codex: Sisters of
Ophelia VII to Terra, passing through Chiros and
Battle (2nd
Gathalamor. The journey generally takes around
Edition), p.25
nine years, once the pilgrim has safely reached
Ophelia VII
Love the Emperor
for He is the salvation of mankind
Obey His words
for He will lead you into the light of the future
Heed His wisdom
for He will protect you from evil
Imperial hymnal
Whisper His prayers with devotion,
Warhammer
40,000 2nd
Edition
Rulebook p. 70
for they will save your soul

Honour His servants,
for they speak in His voice
Tremble before His majesty,
for we all walk in His immortal shadow
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A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Adepta
Sororitas
We serve the Emperor with our faith and devotion, and with faith
there must also sometimes come sacrifice.
[Needs
Citation]
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
from the
Sermons of
Cardinal
Beneficta
The Heretic and Blasphemer can offer no excuse for

their crimes. Those who are pardoned merely live to
further shroud Humanity from the Light of the
Emperor with the Darkness of their souls
Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition), p. 24
C
Speaker
Caddaway,
Redemptionist
theologian
Dolan Chirosius
Quote
Source
The glory we gain blinds us first with its lustre.

- from "Paths to Damnation"
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) - Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Editorial Note after
Chapter 10, pg.
624
On the Day of Affirmation it is the custom to light a

candle, small and sweetly scented, and while it burns to
silently think on those days so long ago. For a few
minutes every year the whole universe of mankind falls
silent and bends its mind to one purpose - billions of
billions of souls drawn together in memory of the Great
Confessor.
- in the "Ministorum Libra Martyr"
Codex Imperialis,
pg. 39
I am not asking for blood. I can take your blood.

I am asking for souls. Only you can give me your
souls.
- Sermon On the Road to Gathalamor
I tread the path of Righteousness. Though it be paved
with broken glass, I will walk it barefoot; though it
cross rivers of fire, I will pass over them; though it
wanders wide, the light of the Emperor guides my
step.
Wargear, pg. 56
Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition), pg. 44
40
- Sermon On the Road to Gathalamor

It is the story of a man who did insane things because
he put in practice what many Saints have preached.
in the Ministorum Libra Martyr
Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition), pg. 9
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Men united in the purpose of the Emperor are blessed in his

sight and shall live forever in his memory.
[Needs Citation]
The words of the faithful are the mountains. But the deeds of
the faithful are the world.
-final words
Dark Adeptus
(Novel),
Chapter Five,
pg. 73
What a tragedy that so many millions of true men should

have died under the evil eye of that cruel regime. To the
Adepts of Earth it must have seemed that the Emperor has
deserted them and the end had finally come. The screams of
the innocent rent the night as men were dragged from sleep
and taken into the pits of the Assassins.
Ecclesiarch
Deacis IX
The Adeptus Astartes held aloof and looked to their own

councils, unsure what course history would take. Even the
Tech-Priests turned away from the High Lords. The damned
Purge of Vandire divided man from man and tore at the
Imperium like a wounded beast that claws its own vitals in its
agony. What hope was there left for men bereft on the
Emperor's love. Yet of all the men of Earth at least one
servant had the faith to say In The Emperor's Name Enough!
Warhammer
40,000:
Wargear (2nd
Edition)
That man was Sebastian Thor.

-from "The Age of the Apostasy"
No army is big enough to conquer the galaxy. But faith alone
can overturn the universe
Codex
Imperialis, p.
40
One man can start a landslide with the casting of a single

pebble.
-from The Legend of Thor from the Age of Apostasy
Codex: Sisters
of Battle (2nd
Edition), p. 12
E
Speaker
Quote
Source
Precepts of
Saint
Emelia
Taking the long view is all well and

prudent, but take care that you dont
become so preoccupied with it that you

by Sandy Mitchell, Chapter 13, p. 215
41
miss whats right under your nose.

-Chapter XXXIV, Verse XII
Preacher
Eran Gudi
The path to duty is often a stony one,

made smoother by thought for others.
Duty Calls (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

Defender of the Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell, Chapter TwentyFour, p. 462, fn. 1
Never forget you are the walls of steel

and iron, between Mankind and a
thousand horrors too unspeakable to
name. You are the walls of Hell.
-address to the Cadian 17th Armoured
Regiment
Imperial Armour - Imperial Vehicles

for Warhammer 40,000, pg. 55
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Prayer may cleanse the soul, but pain cleanses the

Codex: Sisters of Battle
body. Both are necessary for the survival of
(2nd Edition), p. 55
humanity.
Confessor
Ganinimus
H
Speaker
Quote
Source
Cardinal Armandus
Helfire
I long for death, not because I seek peace,

but because I seek the war eternal.
-Reflections on the Long Death
Dark Adeptus (Novel),

Chapter One, pg. 7
I
Speaker
Quote
Malleus
Daemonicus, The
Declaration of
Ecclesiarch Issus
XLVII
Source
Realm of
The Daemonic leads to two crimes. You turn away
Chaos: Slaves
from the path of righteousness. And you abandon the to Darkness, p.
Emperor as the object of your devotion. For the first,
260
death is merely a just retribution. The second is a
reprinted in
heresy so terrible that no punishment can be sufficient.
Codex:
Yet the search for an appropriate penalty continues, Daemonhunters
and it shall be found.
(3rd Edition), p.
19
J
Speaker
Quote
Source
Uriah
Jacobus
Death in service to the Emperor is its own reward.

Life in failure to Him is its own condemnation.
- Epistles (Verse 93)
Dark Adeptus (Novel),

Chapter Fifteen, pg. 261
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K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Euphrati Keeler,
Remembrancer
The Emperor of Mankind is the Light and the Way, and

all his actions are for the benefit of mankind, which is his
people. The Emperor is God and God is the Emperor, so it
is taught in the Lectio Divinitatus, and above all things,
the Emperor will protect...
Horus Rising
(Novel)
by Dan
Abnett,
Part Two,
Chapter Six,
pg. 330
Cardinal
Khrysdam,
Instructum
Absolutio
A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He

may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Codex: Witch
Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find Hunters (3rd
peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as
Edition), p. 42
wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Cardinal
Nomura
A swarm of mechanised locusts sweeping over the

land, stripping it bare of resources, bringing death
and destruction to anything that stands in its path.
Emperor preserve us against the predations of
these so-called Orkish Cults of Speed.
-at the Conclave of Hessen
Fantasy Flight Games teaser

of the "Deadly Salvage" War Pack for the Conquest
Card Game (last accessed 7
July 2015)
P
Speaker
Quote
Saint
Praxides of
Ophelia VII
Source
When it was over, when the blood had dried and the fires
had died down, then we found we were the same as we
Dark Adeptus
had always been - small and terrified human beings, with
(Novel), Chapter
only the light of the Emperor to see by in this dark galaxy
Seventeen, pg. 299
of sin.
-Notes on Martyrdom
S
Speaker
Saint
Sabbat
Quote
Source
There are no miracles. There are only men.

- Epistles
The Sabbat Worlds Crusade

(Background Book), by Dan
Abnett, pg. 9
Honour Guard (Novel) by
Dan Abnett, Ch. 17
Betwixt the wash of the river and the waft of the

wind, let my sins be transfigured to virtues.
- Catechism of Hagia, Book I, Chapter 3, verse XXXII

Dan Abnett, Ch. 1
43
Ephrael
Stern
Where there is an enemy, rage!

Where there is a victory, rejoice!
- Epistles
Sabbat Martyr (Novel) by

Dan Abnett, Ch. 5
Do not shirk! Do not falter!

Give them death in the name of Sabbat!
- At the gates of Harkalon

Dan Abnett, Ch. 10
If the road is easy, the destination is worthless.

- Proverbs

Dan Abnett, Ch. 9
Lay a fire within your soul and another between

your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither
may ever be put out.
- Lessons

Dan Abnett, Ch. 4
Let the sky welcome you, for therein dwells the

Emperor and his saints.
- Proverbs

Dan Abnett, Ch. 2
Though my tears be as many as the spots of rain

Falling in the Hagian woods, one for every fallen soul
loyal to the Throne, there would not be enough.
- Biographica Hagia

Dan Abnett, Ch. 11
That which was will be.

That which dieth will live. That which falleth will
rise up.
This, I say to you, is the nature of things, if you but
once believe.
- Epistles
Sabbat Martyr (Novel) by

Dan Abnett, Ch. 2
As I have been called to the holy work, so I will call

others to me.
- Epistles

Dan Abnett, Ch. 8
Some place their trust in warships, and some in

weapons of destruction. But we remember the divine
Emperor. They are brought down and fallen; but we
are risen and victorious.
-quoting a portion of the Imperial creed
Daemonifuge[Needs Citation]
Daemonifuge (Graphic
Unfortunately, duty and fear often follow the same
path. We must follow the one, and conquer the other. Novel Series)[Needs Citation]
T
Speaker
Sebastian
Thor
Quote
Source
A single man with faith can triumph over a legion of the

Codex: Sisters of
faithless. Untold billions of the faithful can never be opposed.
Battle (2nd
- Sermons, volume XI Chapter IV
Edition), p. 11
The Emperor is our Father and our Guardian, but we must
Codex: Sisters of
44
Cardinal
Shavo
Togandis
also guard the Emperor.

- Sermons, volume XIV chapter I
Battle (2nd
Edition), p. 15
I will steal from the plate of decadence to feed the mouths of

the powerless.
- Sermons, volume XIV chapter XXXVIII
Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition), p. 16
A war waged by committee is a war already lost. - Sermons,

vol. XV, ch. DIV
Necropolis
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett, Chapter
6, p. 83
The strength of the Emperor is Humanity, and the strength

of Humanity is the Emperor. If one turns from the other we
shall all become the Lost and the Damned.
- Sermons, volume XXVII chapter LXII
Codex: Sisters of
Battle (2nd
Edition), p. 54
The people gathered about Thor, and fell to their knees in

adoration, for they realized that all that had come to pass
was gone, and all that remained was the future, and it was
filled with the love of the Emperor. - (Thor five-six-eight)
[Needs Citation]
Give me a gun that never fires! Give me sword that is ever

blunt! Give me a weapon that deals no wound as long as it
always strikes awe!
-address to the Convent Sanctorum
Dark Adeptus
(Novel), Chapter
Fourteen, pg. 245
You are the dark heart of man, Leto. You are the evil that can
The Killing
lurk in any of us, the potential to commit the most heinous acts Ground (Novel)
and do it with a smile on our faces. There is a wall of
by Graham
conscience between acts of good and evil inside most of us, but
McNeill,
that's missing in you. I don't know why, but for you there is no
Chapter
concept of evil, just results.
Nineteen, pg. 284
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Though the darkness will be rent by

Preacher Veltros Theodorus
Imperial Armour - Imperial
noise and flame. Let not men's souls
before the third assault on
Vehicles for Warhammer
be broken in the crucible of war.
Tarrisus Ridge
40,000, pg. 9
-Prayer
Unattributed
Quote
Speaker/Note
Source
Fortune deliver you by the nine holy wounds!
(Ayatani blessing)
Honour Guard
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett, Ch. 3
Light your way in the darkness with the pyres of

burning heretics.
Unknown Priest of the

Ecclesiarchy
[Needs Citation]
45
From this high rock, from this peak, let the light
of worship shine so that the Emperor himself
might see it from his Golden Throne.
Dedication on the high

altar of the Tempelum
Infarfarid Sabbat.
Seek not escape from misery in death for He That

Is Most Mighty gathers not the Selfish Dead to his
side.
Unknown Priest of the
Ecclesiarchy in Kultoom
Question not your lot in this life. Be content to
serve Him-Upon-The-Throne - however humble
your station.
Honour Guard
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett, Ch. 5
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
Astra Militarum
Book
Quote
Source
All of the worlds of the Imperium shall look to

their own defense. They shall also look to the
defense of the Imperium, and the prosecution
of such wars as the Emperor in His wisdom
shall decree.
from the
Introit to the
Codex
Exercitus
Training
Manual, Penal
Therefore, each populated planet shall raise

and maintain its own planetary defense force,
and from the ranks of this defense force it
shall provide the best of its troops for
recruitment into the Imperial Guard,
according to such requirements as shall be
imposed by the Administratum.
Statistically, you will almost certainly die when

assaulting a well-maintained fortress with a
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 142
Warhammer Siege,
p. 95
46
Legion,
Suicide Bomb
Squads
competent commander. You must strive to

make your death useful.
Imperial
Guard Tactical
Manual
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
The Traitor's Hand

(Omnibus) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter 8,
p. 591
Uttica 1st Tank

Company
motto
Victory is achieved through mettle.

Glory is achieved through metal.

Warhammer 40,000, pg.
65
A
Speaker
Quote
Captain Al'rahem,
Tallarn III "Desert
Tigers"
Be swift and silent - as the breeze that

crosses the dunes without stirring a grain
of sand.
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th Edition),
p. 17
Colonel Alathis
They died doing what they loved, that's all

that matters.
after seeing several Hellhounds being
destroyed by a large group of Tyranids
[Needs Citation]
If you want a textbook example of

righteous hatred, you need look no
further than Commissar Yarrick. In him
we see a man who justly despises his foes,
and they in turn loath him.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
expansion game, card
"Hatred - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
accessed 6 October
2015)
Lecturer-General
Aldous, Scholam
Progena
Governor-Militant
Lukas Alexander,
Commander 1st
Kronus Regiment
Fifth Company, this is the moment of

truth. You will not fear. You will not falter.
You will not give a single step to the
enemy.
prior to the defense of Victory Bay from
an attacking force
Source
Dawn of War: Dark

Crusade (Imperial
Guard stronghold
campaign)
47
Enemies of the Imperium, hear me. You

have come here to die. The Immortal
Emperor is with us and we are invincible.
His soldiers will strike you down. His war
machines will crush you under their
treads. His mighty guns will bring the
very sky crashing down upon you. You
cannot win. The Emperor has given us
his greatest weapon to wield. So make
yourselves ready. We are the First Kronus
Regiment, and today is our Victory Day.
address to enemy forces in Victory Bay
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Leto Barbaden,
Governor of
Salinas
When the people forget their duty they are no

longer human and become something less than
beasts. They have no place in the bosom of
humanity nor in the heart of the Emperor. Let
them die and be forgotten.
-quoting from the Prime Edicts of the Holy Synod of
the Adeptus Ministorum
The Killing
Ground (Novel)
by Graham
McNeill,
Chapter 20;
Codex Imperialis,
pg. 10
Sergeant Lukas
Bastonne,
Cadian Shock
Troopers
A good soldier obeys without question. A good

officer commands without doubt.
quoting from the Tactica Imperium
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition), p. 59
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
Warhammer
40,000:
Compendium,
p. 49
Commissar
Groden Bevro
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Trooper
Dermon
Caffran,
Tanith First
and Only
I left my homeworld the night it died, and I've been

fighting for its memory ever since. We Tanith are a
dying breed. There are only about twenty hundred of us
left. Gaunt only got away with enough for one regiment.
The Tanith First. The First-and-Only. That's what
makes us 'Ghosts', you see. The last few unquiet souls
of a dead world. And I suppose we'll keep going until
we're all done.
First and Only

(Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Part Three:
Fortis Binary
Forge World,
Chapter Six
48
Commissar
Ciaphas Cain
Sorry. I prefer blondes.

to Emeli Duboir, just before shooting her on
Slawkenberg
The Beguiling
(Short Story)
by Sandy
Mitchell
I thought the acolytes of Khorne were supposed to be

warriors, not a bunch of pansies.
to a Khorne Berserker, during the Chaos attack on
Adumbria
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch.
13
The noncom in charge of the squad must have been on

something, I thought. Nobody spoke like that outside
badly-written combat novels.
after hearing a Guardsman yell, "Come on, men! Do
you want to live forever?"
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch.
15
Frak this, for my faith is a shield proof against your

blandishments!
attributed by Sergeant Alem Mahat, "The Book of
Cain," Chapter IV, Verse XXI
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch.
20
Frak this! My soul's my own and I'm keeping it!

to Emeli Duboir
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch.
20
Well then, I seem to recall a rather pleasant little

restaurant not far from here. Care to see if it's still
standing?
after the Chaos attack on Adumbria
The Traitor's
Hand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch.
21
As I try to impress on the young whelps in my charge

these days, it isn't the scarlet sash and the fancy hat that
makes you a commissar, it's the way you wear them.
The troops you serve with are never going to like you,
but if you can get them to respect you that can be almost
as good. Remember, you're going to spend most of your
career on a battlefield with them, and they've all got
guns, so making them think you're a liability is never
going to be a very good idea.
Death or Glory
(Novel) by
Sandy
Mitchell,
Chapter Ten
I've come across a number of planetary governors in the

course of my erratic progress around the galaxy and, on
Traitor's
Gambit
49
Sergeant Tona
Criid,
Tanith First
and Only
Lord Castellan
Ursarkar E.
Creed
Colonel
Marus Cullen,
Pannonia 5th
Infantry
Regiment
the whole, the ones who weren't incompetent were either

corrupt, insane, or both; on at least one occasion
sufficiently so to have mortgaged their soul and the
world they administered to the forces of the Ruinous
Powers.
(Chapbook)
UK Games
Day 2009, p. 6
I'd faced the servants of the Great Enemy more often

than I cared to contemplate, and in my experience it was
never wise to underestimate them. Particularly a ten
thousand year old madman, who'd been marinating
himself in the raw stuff of Chaos for most of that time.
shortly before the outbreak of the 13th Black Crusade
Cain's Last
Stand (Novel)
by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch. 5
-Who are you?

-I'm your Aunt Tona.
-I don't have an aunt.
-You do now.
-to Dalin Kolea, during the Siege of Vervunhive
Necropolis
(Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter Two
What do I ask of my officers? Merely that they do their

duty with fire in their bellies and a prayer on their lips.
Codex:
Imperial Guard
(3rd Edition,
2nd Codex),
p. 50
Although all documents surrounding the final fate of

the original Mordant 13th - the Lucky 13s - have been
sealed by order of the Inquisition, I, on behalf of the
Cadian High Command, order another regiment to be
mustered and given the name The Mordant 13th. The
psyker cadre that advises my High Command have
divined, through the Emperors Tarot, that just such a
regiment will be able to protect the Imperium from all of
its foes. It is with all haste that this regiment be raised
and trained. We need these men to be hardened fighters
in the service of the Emperor before the year is out.
GW Homepage
USA
Though our tanks and artillery are mighty, it is the vast

ranks of Imperial Guardsmen that shall trample the
enemy to dust - let them come.
Codex:
Imperial Guard
(5th Edition),
Back Cover
Children you call them? They can pull a trigger just as

well as veterans, and they have the spirit of a bull
narthax. Call them children if you wish - I call them
troops.
on Whiteshields
Warhammer
40,000:
Compendium,
p. 41
50
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Mosstrooper
"Reiv" Daggat of
the 17th
Drookian
Fenguard
The Valhallans hate the cold as much as the rest of

us, they're just taught that carpin' on about it gets
the Commissars all riled...
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition), p. 20
Nork Deddog,
Ogryn
Bodyguard
Da Sergeant Major asked me what my job was an' I

said it was to, uh, do what I was told. He said I was
a genius and gave me another medal. I likes da
Imperial Guard!
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition), p. 67
Warmaster
Demetrius
I have at my command an entire battle group of the

Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including
specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized
formations, armored companies, combat engineers
and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting
men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces
are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the
fool that stands against me, for I shall not.
at the outset of the Salonika Crusade, 733.M38
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition), p. 7
Imperial Armour
Volume One Imperial Guard
and Imperial
Navy, pg. 159
Lieutenant Taan
Darrick,
Cadian 88th
Mechanised
Infantry
I hate this planet.

-on Shrine World Solthane
[Needs Citation]
E
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Gregor
Eisenhorn
It remains a sad truth of the Imperium that virtually no

veteran ever comes back from fighting its wars intact.
Combat alone shreds nerves and shatters bodies. But the
horrors of the warp, and of foul xenos forms like the
tyranid, steal sanity forever, and leave veterans fearing the
shadows, and the night and, sometimes, the nature of their
friends and neighbours, for the rest of their lives.
Missing in
Action
(Short Story)
by Dan
Abnett
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
51
Commander
Fleyitch
Ogryns. If we time it just right, the Eldar will all be going

"What the..." just when what's left of the Company
breaks cover over here and piles into them. No spreading
out, no fancy stuff, just smash through. Let's see how
those degenerate sophisticates handle a healthy dose of
pure unreasoning violence.
Warhammer
40,000:
Compendium,
p. 48
13th Legion
(Novel) by
Gav Thorpe,
13th Penal
Legion's
Guardsman
Franx
Give me a gun, a google-eyed alien to shoot it at, and Ill

die a happy man.
Commissar
von Fredrick
Gentlemen, today we will cover unique fire support

options available to commanders of most Imperial Guard
and Adeptus Mechanicus forces, primarily from Imperial
Cruise Missile. These deadly weapons are unique in their
long range, accuracy, and wide variety of warhead
choices. It is the warhead choices that make these
weapons truly unique. For Imperial Cruise Missile are
one of the few in which commanders can tailor to meet
their combat needs. Whether that need be creating
battlefield obstacles, providing cover for your advancing
troops, or smashing any enemy war engine to bits.
Gentlemen, you must, however, analyze your mission and
the enemy wisely before you make any warhead
decisions. For once the warheads are mated to their
missile airframes you will likely be stuck with them for
the duration of an entire operation.
from lectures at the Imperial Officers Academy, Bakker
[Needs Citation]
Captain
Miklos
Furnow,
Hydrae 15th
Guard
Regiment
Titans? They're just like anything else. The bigger they

are, the harder they fall.
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Colonel-Commissar
Ibram Gaunt,
Tanith First and Only
Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever?
First and Only

(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Part Two:
Fortis Binary
Forge World,
52
Chapter 3
I am a Commissar. I am empowered to deliver
justice wher ever I see it lacking. I am
empowered to punish cowardice. I am granted
the gift of total authority to judge, in the name of
the Emperor, on the field of combat.
prior to the field execution of his "uncle,"
General Aldo Dercius
I don't pretend to understand the technology, but
I know that's an intact Standard Template
weapons maker. And I know that's as unheard of
as a well-manicured ork.
Give any man the power of a god, and you better
hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to
match. There's nothing feeble about my moral
line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I
mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I
make. One life or a billion, they're all lives.
on Menazoid Epsilon
Pain is temporary, Honour is forever
First and Only

(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
A Memory:
Khedd 1173
First and Only

(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Part Six:
Menazoid
Epsilon,
Chapter 23
Gaunt's Ghosts
(Novel Series)
by Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
As the Emperor protects, so must we.
Sabbat Martyr
(Novel) by
Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
"Hold Fast!"
"They're killing us!"
"So kill them back!"
to an unknown Fortis Binary trooper
I have a reputation, Modile, a reputation as a

fair, honest man who treats his soldiers well and
supports them in the face of darkness.
Potentially, that reputation makes me soft. It
Gaunt's Ghosts
(Novel Series)
by Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
Necropolis
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Chapter 9
53
seems I understand failure and forgive it. Some,

like Kowle, believe me to be a weak commissar,
not prepared to take the action my rank demands.
Not prepared to enforce field discipline where I
see it failing. I am an Imperial commissar. I will
enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide
the lost. I will be all things to all men who need
me. But I will also punish without hesitation the
incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous.
Choose, for courtesy's sake, summary execution
or a firing squad of your own men.
Commissar Anton
Gebbet, 1st Kronus
Regiment
If you will not serve in combat, then you will

serve on the firing line.
- to unsettled members of the Fifth Company
before the attack on Victory Bay
Dawn of War:
Dark Crusade
Packmaster Grasht,
attached to 7
Company, Gratanor
14th Regiment
Beastman bad. Bad Beastman. Dirty. Emperor no

like. Beastman love Emperor. Give blood to
Emperor. Give heads to Emperor. Say sorry.
[Needs Citation]
Dravin Gratz, 14th

Tharinga Regiment,
Imperial Guard
I have seen war in all its forms. I have seen feral

world savages braining each other with stones,
and I have monitored the death of a whole planet
at the hands of a virus bomb. I have seen Space
Marines drop to certain death, and win. I have
seen Titans crush whole platoons underfoot. But
there is no more stirring sight in war than the
charge of massed cavalry.
Warhammer
40,000:
Compendium,
p. 37
Sergeant-Ogryn
Graxugg
No problem. We showed them skinny Eldar.

Come on lads, says I, we're gonna go over there
and bury them in their own holes, no worries.
There was no worries about cover, 'cos there
wasn't any cover. No worries about timing, 'cos
us lads were first in. Easy as breakfast.
only survivor of an entire platoon
Sergeant Green
You've just been volunteered for the Last

Chancers. For your crimes against the Emperor
and humanity you will spend your life in this, the
XIII Penal Legion, until such time as you receive
the Emperor's Absolution from the Colonel or
the Emperor himself. And of course the only way
you can receive the Emperor's personal
First And Only

(Novel) by
Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
[Needs Citation]
54
absolution is when you're dead...

to a new "volunteer" for the Last Chancers
Commissar Grenville
General Coron
Grizmund,
Narmenian Armoured
When you decide to die, remember to give your

enemy the same honour.
Target and deny! By our deaths shall they know
us!
-at the Siege of Vervunhive
Let's give them hell, men.
-at the Siege of Vervunhive
[Needs Citation]
Necropolis
(Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter
Fifteen
H
Speaker
Quote
Acting-Captain
Haines,
47th Armageddon
Steel Legion
I've fought in this endless hateful war for

eight months now, night and day. In that
time I've aged a decade. My hair has
turned grey, nearly all my squad have
died, and I doubt I'll ever smile again.
I've fought next to heroes and strangled
men in their sleep. But I'm still alive and
by the Emperor I plan to stay that way.
- on the Third War for Armageddon
[Needs Citation]
Trooper Halvus
So here I am, in a lose-lose position. Stay

here and die at the hands of alien heretics
- or throw in my lot with two superhuman
psychopaths with a death wish!
on Colderon V, re Brother-Captain
Invictus
[Needs Citation]
Graf Harazahn,
Lord Marshal
One hammer blow will be all it takes.

Place the men on alert, summon the
reserves! We crush them here and now,
for the Emperor!
Gunnery Sergeant
"Stonetooth"
Harker
Back home, I once fancied me a pair of

Catachan Devil boots. Killed me half a
dozen of the great ugly critters but never
Source
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
"Apocalyptic Battle
Major Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
accessed 7 October 2015)
Codex: Imperial Guard
(5th Edition), p. 62
55
found a single one that wore any!

to a doubtful Munitorium staffer
Sergeant-Ogryn
Hrathlagg
Been on a death world once. That was a

bit like home. Most places are better,
though. And there's regular rations. We
get more if the Emperor's really pleased
with us.
on the joy of life in the Imperial Guard
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 49
J
Speaker
Quote
Source
Jarn Bullneck Colda,

Captain Catachan IX
Stupid dumb Orks, dont

they know theyre on our
territory now? Kyraxian
Death-jungle? Feels just
like home to me!

Home Ground - Minor
Stratagem", (saved archive page,
dated February 2011, last
Private Joanus Finks

about the troopers
killed by Death
Spinner's monofilament
web
Ugh! What happened to

these guys! Looks like
they've been sliced and
diced.
Imperial Armour II - Ork, Eldar

and Dark Eldar Vehicles for
Warhammer 40,000, pg. 13
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lieutenant
Kage,
13th Penal
Legion
Marching through this green hellhole, getting

slowly eaten by flies, drowning in our own sweat
and choking on sulfur fumes? I cant see why
thats not a good idea.
13th Legion (Novel)

by Gav Thorpe,
Chapter Two
Colonel Jago
Kallowen
Of course theyd come to Mordant for the saviors

of the galaxy! Were the hardest gakking troopers
youll find in all the Segmentums! Im proud to
lead these warriors of the Emperor where ever he
needs us to fight. Well stand fast against the
myriad of foes that batter at the gates of the
Imperium. Ive scoured the mines and shantytowns for the fiercest low-lives I could find. As I
GW Homepage USA
56
speak to you now, my men are already suffering

through the most rigorous boot camp you could
imagine. No soldier of the Lucky 13s will be grist
for the mill.
Mogul Kamir
General
Karis
It is not enough that I achieve victory - my enemy

must suffer total defeat. It is not enough that I kill
- all my foes must die. It is not enough that I
succeed - all others must fail!
at the conclusion of the Twenty-Third Quadrant
Suppression
Codex: Imperial
p. 66
I dont know what effect they have on the enemy,

but by the Emperor, they frighten me.
on the Valhallans under his command
For The Emperor

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Ch. 1, p. 35
Trust? Trusts got nothing to do with it. I just

dont want them out of my sight.
after granting full access to his command bunker
to the local PDF commanders on Vortovan
For The Emperor

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Ch. 10, p. 167
I don't care how bloody sanctioned they are, a

psyker's a psyker, and anything to do with the
warp is more trouble than it's worth.
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 11, p. 625
Kol Gutting
Knife Freen,
Penal
Legionnaire
We hit em so hard half of them were still

squatting on their latrines. Aint nothing in the
galaxy that brings victory half as sure as killing
the enemy before he knows hes in a fight.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
Surprise Attack Minor Stratagem",
(saved archive page,
dated February 2011,
last accessed 6
October 2015)
Sergeant Gol
Kolea,
Tanith First
-How many did you lose coming here?

-Troops?
-Family.
-I didn't have any to lose. I don't know which of us
Necropolis (Novel) Gaunt's Ghosts: The

Founding (Omnibus)
by Dan Abnett,
57
is luckier.
-Neither one, commissar. And that's the tragedy.
-to Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt
Chapter 17, pg. 713
Lieutenant
Konarski,
933rd Death
Korp of
Krieg
We're the Death Korps of Krieg, son. Did you

think that was just a pretty name? We never
retreat. We fight and we die, that's the Krieg way.
Warriors of Ultramar
(Novel) - The
Ultramarines Omnibus
by Graham McNeill,
Ch. 11, p. 440
Commissar
Krieglust
Weep for him - for his faith was not sufficient.

Rejoice for yourselves, for my faith is bottomless!
Forward, for the Emperor!
after executing an officer
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 151;
Codex: Imperial
p. 10
And from the deeps there arose a mighty beast, of

many eyes and many limbs. And the beast from
the darkness did set upon the light of mankind
with hateful thirst and unnatural hunger.
Last Chancers (Novel

Series) by Gav
Thorpe[Needs Citation]
And the bounties of the Emperor shall go to those

who have worked hard in his service.

Series) by Gav
And the Emperors thanks for those who have

been bountiful in their gifts would be eternal.

Series) by Gav
Kronin
And Saint Phistinius went unto the enemy

unarmed and unarmoured.

Series) by Gav
And the heretic priests of Eidoline came forth,

bringing false images for the praise of the lost
people.
13th Legion (Novel) The Last Chancers

(Omnibus) by Gav
Thorpe, Chapter
Seven, pg. 208
Unto death I shall serve him. Unto life again shall

he serve the Emperor.

Series) by Gav
There are bounties and treasures aplenty for those

of the true faith.

Series) by Gav
58
Kudubai
Khan, Attilan
Rough Rider
There was rejoicing upon the Square of the

Evernight, for the darkness had passed and the
light had returned.

Series) by Gav
There was a great light, and all around was the

beauty of the Emperor.

Series) by Gav
And there shall be space in the Emperors heart

for all true believers.

Series) by Gav
And they smote the enemies of the Emperor with a

righteous fury, for they knew they were doing His
work.
13th Legion (Novel) The Last Chancers

(Omnibus) by Gav
Thorpe, Chapter Four,
pg. 144
We ride like the wind, my brothers victory

depends on it.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
"Forced March Minor Stratagem",
last accessed 5
October 2015)
L
Speaker
Quote
Source
Veteran Sergeant
Leo Lemuel
No, he was not a saint. He was a man. A

very great man, and in many ways a very
wicked one.
-on Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Angel of Fire (Novel) by

William King, Prologue
M
Speaker
Warmaster
Macaroth
Quote
Source
-Show me men who know how to fight!

-Follow me to the morgue, sir, and I'll show you
The Sabbat Worlds

Crusade
59
Lord
Commander
Solar
Macharius
plenty.
-to Warmaster Slaydo, during the invasion of
Formal Prime
(Background Book)
by Dan Abnett, pg.
17
With this act we have richly denied the Darkness

and made trophies of its creatures. A dark lord is
dead. So, this holy crusade, blessed by the
Emperor, is advanced with glory.
-on Verghast, in the aftermath of the Siege of
Vervunhive
Necropolis (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter Nineteen
What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The

god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus? No!
The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun?
The fist? Not at all! Courage and courage alone
stands above them all!
- from his writings
Necropolis (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter 12
Strike fast and suddenly. Attack without warning.

Secure victory before the foe is aware of his
danger. Remember always, a war is easily won if
your enemy does not know he is fighting.
quoted in The Macharian Heresy by Lord
Inquisitor Kryptman
[Needs Citation]
I give men dreams and men are led by their

dreams.
Codex: Imperial
Guard (3rd Edition,
2nd Codex), p. 9
What I cannot crush with words I will crush with

the tanks of the Imperial Guard!
Codex: Imperial
p. 8
Peace? There cannot be peace in these times.
Codex: Imperial
Guard (3rd Edition,
2nd Codex), p. 23,
Codex: Imperial
p. 6
The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your

enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate
him from living memory, to leave no remnant of
his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement
and remove from all record his every trace of
existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever
recover. That is the meaning of victory.
Codex: Imperial
pg. 13;
The Killing Ground
(Novel)
by Graham McNeill,
Chapter Fourteen,
60
pg. 216
Always endeavour to fight the enemy on your own
terms. If you outnumber the foe use reserves to
break through when the enemy's overstretched
lines collapse. If you are outnumbered then
concentrate your forces so that the enemy can fight
only your best troops. If you are powerful at close
quarters then engage in dense terrain where your
advantage will prove greatest. If you are superior
at long range then attack along an extended front.
Remember always, however, that a commander
who puts his faith in heavy weaponry will be easily
outmaneuvered and a commander who relies on
close combat without adequate support will lose his
force to disciplined fire. No one has ever won a
battle who failed to take advantage of his enemy's
weakness, or take heed of his own.
prior to the conquest of Kallastin
Macros
Captain,
Mordian IV
Sergeant Alem
Mahat,
229th Tallarn
Desert Raiders
Warmaster
Menitus
Where the hell are those throne damned

reinforcements? Get Kendrick on the vox. What do
you
mean theres no signal? What in hells going on
here?
Codex: Imperial
p. 45
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
expansion game,
card Disruptor
Field - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
accessed 6 October
2015)
Doing the work of the Emperor is its own reward.

But this is quite satisfying.
-while shooting Slaaneshi cultists
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) - Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 19, p. 741
You can waste as many Imperial Guard lives as

you care, thats your stupidity and not my
responsibility.
13th Legion (Novel)

- The Last Chancers
(Omnibus) by Gav
Thorpe, Interlude
between Chapters
Four and Five, pg.
148
61
Captain Forgus
Merd
I'd check my instruments if I were you. No-one in

his right mind would lay a minefield in a place
like...
reported last words
Warhammer Siege,
p. 98
Jarra Mordiker
Commander,
13th/5th
Support
Regiment
Peace is not in my vocabulary.

attributed
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 91
O
Speaker
Quote
Source
Gharan O'Hen,
Army 212 Chief of
Staff
They may spend every off-duty minute polishing

their shiny boots and marching up and down the
parade ground in perfect formation, but don't let
that fool you. These men are steel-eyed, coldblooded killers and I'd as soon have a platoon of
them in my force as I would a company of other
troops.
- on the Mordian Iron Guard.
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition),
pg. 16
Winning is everything, but the trick is to know

where the winning really is.... We're political
animals, Ibram. Through us, if we do our job
properly, the black and white of war is tempered.
We are the interpreters of combat, the
translators. We give meaning to war, subtlety,
purpose even. Killing is the most abhorrent,
mindless profession known to man. Our role is to
fashion the killing machine of the human species
into a positive force. For the Emperor's sake.
For the sake of our own consciences.
-on the role of Commissars
First and Only

(Novel) Gaunt's Ghosts:
The Founding
(Omnibus) by
Dan Abnett,
A Memory:
Darendara, pg.
233
The first trick a political officer of the

Commissariat learns is: learn to lie. The second
is: trust no one. The third: never get involved
with local politics.
Necropolis
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Chapter Eight
Always, always lead from the front. Never expect

a man under your command to undertake an
action you're not prepared to make yourself.
Necropolis
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Chapter
Seventeen
Commissar-General
Delane Oktar
62
P
Speaker
Quote
Source
Colonel
Pannent
As swift as a lash mamba, as sharp as a sineleaf,

as stubborn as a wild grox.
in praise of the Catachan warrior
Knight
Commander
Pask,
Cadian 423rd
Armoured
Regiment
Target sighted! Red Corsairs Predator left of the

bunker. See the repair seam on the turret? Steady.
Fire! Good shot. Driver, AT mines, steer left now.
Gunner! Enemy infantry in crater, eleven o'clock.
High explosive, fire! Sponson gunners keep an
eye out, there's plenty more where they came
from...
- Internal comm log, "Hand of Steel," during
Operation Retort (second assault on Fort Lycoss)
General Pavlov,
Armageddon
Command
Guard
We hold them here or we fight them on the

hallowed ground of Terra itself. I for one would
rather see a million human lives lost here than
allow a single Ork to set foot on Earth.
Colonel
Joachim Pfeiff,
Krieg 14th
Armoured
Regiment
Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battlehardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let
him believe what he will. We have the tanks on
ours.
[Needs Citation]
Codex: Imperial
p. 58
[Needs Citation]
Imperial Armour Imperial Vehicles

for Warhammer
40,000, pg. 31
Q
Speaker
Quote
Source
Scrivener
Quintus
Codicier Pryke raised the point that a significant

credit value was attached to this installation, and
that its destruction would result in a 0.017 per cent
fluctuation in the mean commerce averages of the
sector. She went on to suggest that an alternative
strategy should be found. Colonel Kasteen said she
was welcome to go outside and ask the orks to go
away if she thought that would help.
from the minutes of a meeting of the Committee for
the Defence and Preservation of Simia Orichalcae
From the Orkish Incursion, 648.932.M41
Caves of Ice (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of

the Imperium
(Omnibus) by Sandy
Mitchell, Editorial Note
after Chapter Five,
pp. 348349
63
R
Speaker
Major Elim
Rawne,
Tanith First and
Only
Quote
Source
Gaunt? Hes a despicable bastard who left my

world to die and one day I will slay him with
my own hands.
on Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt
Ghostmaker (Novel) Gaunt's Ghosts: The

Founding (Omnibus)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter Two, p. 271
A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son

of a bitch.
on Gaunt
Necropolis (Novel) by
Dan Abnett, Chapter
18
-I've never liked you, Gaunt.

-I know.
-But I've always respected you. Solid.
Professional. A warrior who works to a code.
Sure, because of that code Tanith burned, but
you stuck by it no matter what anyone else
thought. A man of honour.
Honour Guard
(Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter Fourteen
I hate last stands, there's never time to

practise them.
Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel

Series) by Dan
Abnett[Needs Citation]
We've run into scorpions the size of battle

tanks, three men died from Eyerot last week.
I've sweat enough to fill a lake, my boots got
sucked into a sink-swamp and the trees are so
thick in places, you can't squeeze between
them. Emperor help me, I love this place! It's
just like home!
commenting on Varestus Prime
Codex: Catachans
(3rd Edition), pg. 3
Colonel Rorkins,
Imperial Guard
(retired)
Sir, will do. I've never liked that particular

title. It seems to foster unhealthy ambitions.
- politely declining his brevet promotion to
"Warmaster" during the Second Siege of Perlia
Cain's Last Stand

(Novel) - Ciaphas
Cain: Defender of the
Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Ch. 9, p. 605
Trooper Gage
Rorsche, 3rd
Platoon, Alpha
Company,
Mordant 13th, T
Theyre sending us where? The want us to

fight who? Well, I guess the Emperor knows
what hes doing, because those bureaucrats in
the Administratum sure as gak dont!
GW Homepage USA
Captain Rock of
the Catachan III
'Green Devils'
64
S
Speaker
Colonel
Schaeffer
Quote
You're all here because you are traitors to Mankind
and the Immortal Emperor. You are here because
you have failed in your sworn duty to protect his
domains and subjects, and you have perverted his
trust in you for your own misguided ends. You have
sacrificed your part in securing the future of the
whole of humanity for your own selfish gain. To
kill you would be to accept that you can no longer
save your immortal souls. If you were to be ushered
into the Emperor's presence now, the scales would
tip badly against you when the deeds of your life
are weighed up by his Almighty Presence. This is
why I give you a last chance to prove yourselves
worthy of the Emperor's forgiveness. This is why
you are here - to save yourselves from eternal
damnation.
- to his Last Chancers
You will atone for your sins, and when you die you
will thank me for allowing you to!
Source
The Last Chancers

(Novel) by Gav
Thorpe[Needs
Citation]
The Last Chancers

(Novel) by Gav
Thorpe[Needs
Citation]
You are all here because you are scum. But you are
the Emperor's scum. You have skills that are useful
to our Immortal Lord and whether you wish it or
no, they will be made use of.
Those we left behind were weak. To give in to alien

domination is one of the greatest acts of treachery
against the Emperor.
General
Sejanus
They have seen more death and ruin than another

soldier sees in ten lifetimes.
Captain
Shambas,
Valhallan
597th
I love the smell of promethium in the morning.
The Last Chancers

(Novel) by Gav
Thorpe[Needs
Citation]
The Last Chancers

(Novel) by Gav
Thorpe[Needs
Citation]
Codex: Imperial
Guard (3rd Edition,
1st Codex), p. 23
For The Emperor
(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
65
Sandy Mitchell,
p. 212 (Editorial
Note following
Chapter 12)
Warmaster
Slaydo
In war, best know what enemies are around you in

your camp, before you step out to face the foe and
wonder why you do so alone. - from "A Treatise on
the Nature of Warfare"
Necropolis (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter 5
Do not ask how you may give your life for the
Emperor. Ask instead how you may give your death.
Necropolis (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter 9,
Never!
after being asked when to order a retreat
Necropolis (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter 13
We have been given our crusade, my sons... the

Sabbat Worlds!
before the Sabbat Worlds Crusade
Honour Guard
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett, Chapter 12
The beati was a warrior. She exemplifies the

Imperial creed, and the human spirit better than
any figure in the annals. As a boy, she inspired me.
I take this crusade as a personal matter, a duty
greater than any I have yet undertaken for the
Golden Throne. To repay her inspiration, to walk in
her path and make free again the worlds she
brought from darkness. I feel as if I am... a pilgrim,
Ibram.
about Saint Sabbat, on the eve of the liberation of
Formal Prime
Then start with mine!
leaving his command vehicle to personally lead the
assault on the Palace of the Oligarchy on Balhaut,
after being told that it would cost several thousand
lives to capture.
The Sabbat Worlds

Crusade
(Background
Book)
by Dan Abnett,
[Needs Citation]
Imperial
Warmaster
Solon
Every position must be held to the last man: there

must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall,
and believing in the justice of our cause, each one
of us must fight on to the end.
attributed
Warhammer 40,000
2nd Edition
Rulebook, p. 18
66
Colonel "Iron
Hand" Straken,
Catachan II
Damn it, follow me. I'll show you how it's done.
at the Battle of Moden's Ridge
Colonel
"Snake"
Stranski,
Commander
Cadian 114th
Mechanised
Infantry
Captain, the reason we've got these tracks is to get

us into trouble faster. Now I suggest you mount up
and move out. The enemy is that way, don't stop 'til
you find him, and don't come back 'til you've
beaten him.
Colonel
Strickland
The reinforcements were greatly appreciated... erm,

have you got any more?
WD 34 (CAN)
To each of us falls a task. And all the Emperor

requires of us Guardsmen is that we stand in line,
and we die fighting. It is what we do best: we die
standing.
Dawn of War:
Winter Assault
Although the Golden Throne of Terra orbits a

distant star far from here, the Emperor's hand is on
your shoulders today. You have fought and
displayed bravery and loyalty far and above your
calling as Guardsmen. You have faced the full
brunt of an Ork Waaagh! as well as stared down
the horrors of the Warp in the fallen Space
Marines, and in that I am honoured to have led
you.
Dawn of War:
Winter Assault
General
Sturnn,
Commander
Cadian 412th
"This is General Sturnn of the Cadian 412th

Regiment Imperial Guard. Only fools believe that
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Still, the Eldar
proved useful enough to bring my men into
position, admittedly at cost to their own lives. They
lay outside, being cut to the last as I speak. I cannot
risk helping them. I will not trade the lives of my
men for theirs."
Codex: Imperial
Guard (5th
Edition), p. 60
[Needs Citation]
Dawn of War:
Winter Assault
"You will fail this day, General. Without our

soulstone the battle will be lost. The Necrons will
sweep over you and drink your life out from the
hollow vessel of your corpse! Without us you face
your doom."
"Eldar! The Cadian 412th have faced doom before.
We bested it then and we will best it today! Die
67
well!"
exchange between General Sturnn and Farseer
Taldeer
Lady General
Jenit Sulla
Oh. Were there Tyranids on Corania? I guess I was

just too busy with my needlepoint to notice!
-in retort to Major Ruput Broklaw's derisive
comments about the fighting history of the Valhallan
296th
For the Emperor

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 2, p. 50
For justice! For vengeance! For the Emperor!

-on Gravalax
For the Emperor

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Editorial Note after
Chapter 15, p. 255
The most dangerous thing on the battlefield is a

junior officer with a compass and a map.
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Ch. 7, p. 573
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
"I cry out for troops and you give me rhetoric I plead for ammunition and you give me
speeches - I ask you again, Commander, what
can you pledge me?"
Gulim Tarrel
"A heroic death, Captain."

reported holocom conversation between
Commander Tarrel and Captain Roima of the
besieged Alharmo Garrison shortly before the
final Ork assault
Commander
Walls of stone do not a fortress make. But
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 81
Warhammer Siege,
68
Rango Thaxx
they're not a bad start.
J'blann
Threekiller,
Tiger Lizards
(12th/23rd
Davin
Regiment)
When the Titan walks, only the dead have no

fear. The brave warrior faces his fear and the
Titan, and kills the enemies of the Great
Brother-Warrior Horus. The Titan's steps
shake the land beneath our feet, lightning is in
its veins, and the sun is in its heart. The
shadow of the Titan weighs upon our hearts,
yet we fight against it. My knife and my gunof-light will conquer, and the Titan's death
scream will be my prayer, for my weapons
shine with courage.
[Needs Citation]
Lord Marshal
Toshenko
We shall wage this war with undaunted faith

and courage. We shall not take one step back.
This is the Emperor's world and we will not
surrender it!
- addressing the Vostroyan XVI at the Defence of
Nimbosa

Commissar
Exen Treuer,
23rd Moradia
Regiment
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 50
It is always better to find your enemy, before

your enemy finds you.

Warhammer 40,000, pg.
27
Commander
Tulathan,
Vastadt 4th
Independent
Tank
Regiment
Rifleman Tyla,
Scout
Company,
Pardus 34th
Regiment
Commissar
Tyreen,
Versimmon
Dragoons
Munitorium Swamp Warfare instructors may

tell you the swamp is your friend. More
Realistic instructors may claim it's just neutral.
Let me tell you; the swamp is not neutral and it
most certainly is not your friend. It's your
enemy, and you'll soon learn to hate it.
All men need something to fight for, a cause to

believe in. Tell them that the Emperor needs
them to hold that ground at all costs, and
theyll fight like lions.
p. 98
[Needs Citation]
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
"Capture and Secure Minor Stratagem",
dated February 2011
69
V
Speaker
Sergeant
Ceglan
Varl of the
Tanith First
and Only
Quote
Source
Traitor General
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett[Needs
Does the God-Emperor sit much?
Citation]
The Emperor protects... and dumps on us from a great

height
Traitor General
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett[Needs
Citation]
Veteran
Sergeant
Hessel,
122nd
Cadians
What I remember most about the battle for Vogen was

the confusion and the colossal scale of death. We
fought like heroes, like each building that had even one
Guardsman inside was a fortress against the enemy.
Every soldier, fighting in a basement or under the
stairs, stood his ground alone and accomplished the
task on his own. Because in cityfighting a soldier has to
be his own general. He needs to be given correct
guidance and the trust of his officers. On Vogen we had
neither and how we survived was a miracle.
GW saved archive
page of the
introduction to
Cityfight (last
accessed 29 June
2015)
W
Speaker
Quote
Source
Corporal Webb,
Cadian XIV
Shocktroopers
I dont get it. How does a tank

that big just disappear? What
sorcery can do Holy Throne!
Heavy weapons, right flank,
right flank! Fire now.

"Hologram - Minor Stratagem",
(saved archive page, dated
February 2011, last accessed 5
October 2015)
X
Speaker
Quote
Source
Commissar Otto
Xavier
''Who told you to die? Keep

fighting!
http://www.dawnofwargame.co
m
70
Y
Speaker
Quote
I have followed you too far to fail now Ghazghkull
Thraka. I bear the gift of death. You cannot outrun me.
There's no place in this universe where you can hide. I
have waited a long time for vengeance. I'm tired but not
so tired I cannot kill you. Maybe then I won't see the
faces of the dead. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep.
before the battle for Golgotha
The green tide of Orkdom is upon us and we are alone.
There can be no mercy. No surrender. If we survive this
day it will be a miracle.
at Armageddon
Commissar
Sebastian
Yarrick
Source
[Needs Citation]
Codex
Imperialis[Need
s Citation]
He was an avalanche from an unexpected quarter. He

was a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
on Ghazghkull Thraka
[Needs Citation]
There will be no retreat from Hades Hive. We will fight

to the end.
[Needs Citation]
It is the purest folly to believe that an individual can save

Armageddon. Wars are not won by heroes, they are won
by firepower and force, and the application of strategy
and tactics.
[Needs Citation]
We stand at a junction, with roads leading to both abject

defeat and glorious victory. In order to choose the right
path to follow we need first to look back along the road
that has led us to this point...
[Needs Citation]
Heroes of Armageddon! You have withstood the evil

savagery of the Orks, and they have nothing left for you
to fear. So raise high the black banners of vengeance now is our time.
last transmission prior to departing with a Black
Templars crusade to hunt down Ghazghkull Mag Uruk
Thraka
Codex:
Imperial Guard
(5th Edition),
p. 19
71
Z
Speaker
Quote
Source
Zoutah,
Commissar,
Catachan Wild
Cats
We draw the line here!

Sergeants, pass the word out,
we give no ground, we stand
and we die in the name of the
Emperor!
Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires

expansion game, card "Chosen
Ground - Minor Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated February 2011,
Lord General
Zyvan
Competence on the battlefield

is a myth. The side which
screws up next to last wins, it's
as simple as that.
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) Ciaphas

Cain: Hero of the Imperium
(Omnibus) by Sandy Mitchell, Chapter
Ten, p. 611
Unattributed 2
Quote
Speaker
Source
Infantry win firefights. Tanks win battles.

Artillery win wars.
Old saying
amongst Imperial
Guard artillery
officers
Codex: Imperial
p. 52
Incoming fire has the right of way.
Old artilleryman's
maxim
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter 3
For seven terrible years the Siege regiments

of the Imperial Guard carried out their
onerous duty, manning the hundreds of
miles of trenches and fortified positions that
served to contain the arch-heretics forces.
Success was measured in yards of ground
gained, and every inch of that deadly ground
was bought with the blood and lives of men.
From the official

history of the
Kaiserschlect
Campaign,
M41.745
- C and D platoons, move up. Follow the

Robots. Other units hold position. Gardiner,
where are the Ogryns?
Transmission to an
Ogryn unit
[Needs Citation]
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, p. 148
-In small pieces all over breakout zone

Charlie, sir. Shurikens took'em apart. Only
72
three survivors.
-Patch me through to them. Hello, who's
that?
-Ordrogg.
-Grathyogg still alive?
-Nah.
-Listen, Ordrogg, the Emperor's very pleased
with all of you, OK?
-Him? He's pleased?
-Very pleased. He's watching you now. He
says he wants you to go over to the Robots
and stick with them. You got that?
Yerr. On our way.
Another day nearer the battle,

So drink up my lads and look brave,
Cos every day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave.
A warriors' song of
the Imperial Guard
[Needs Citation]
The Emperor points, and we obey,

Through the warp and far away.
From a warriors'
song of the
Imperial Guard
For the Emperor

(Novel) - Ciaphas
Cain: Hero of the
Imperium (Omnibus)
by Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 4, p. 86
Hurry up and wait.
Guardsman's
traditional
summation of the
process of
deployment
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter 12
From The
Guardsmans
Duty, a popular
ballad
For The Emperor

(Novel) by Sandy
Whatever happens, we have got

The Emperors blessing. They have not.
73
When in deadly danger,

When beset by doubt,
Run in little circles,
Wave your arms and shout.
Parody of the
Litany of
Command, popular
among Commissar
Cadets
However beautiful the strategy, you should

occasionally look at the results.
Ancient Terran
General
Fear not. The Emperor will provide.
Commissariat
maxim
For The Emperor

(Novel) by Sandy
Mitchell, Ch. 6
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
Things can always get worse.
Valhallan proverb
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel) by Sandy
It's never too late to panic.
Popular Valhallan
folk saying
For The Emperor

(Novel) by Sandy
From the skies!
Regimental motto
of the Elysian 23rd
Drop Troops
Regiment
Once seen in battle, you never forget a Titan:

the shaking of the land beneath your feet;
the sound of its guns; the lightning-smell of
its passing. But when you look at your
comrades remember that they have the power
to kill the monster. And remember this: the
Titan's crew knows you have the power to
kill them.
[Needs Citation]
Any Cadian who can't field-strip his own

lasgun by age ten was born on the wrong
planet.
Anonymous
Weve been claiming this damned planet for

the Imperium all of my life, and all of my
father and grandfathers lives before that. I
just wish someone would get round to telling
those damned Orks to get off our damned
land!
Anonymous
Please try to run. It would save me lots of
[Needs Citation]
Unknown
Codex: Imperial
p. 14
[Needs Citation]
13th Legion (Novel) -
74
problems.
Commissar
The Last Chancers

(Omnibus) by Gav
Thorpe, Chapter Six,
pg. 179
Glory for the first man to die, charge!
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Stop bleeding and fight back!
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Capturing it was easy. Holding it will be

hard.
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Those are Eldar? I thought they'd be taller.
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Tanks! Where are the bloody tanks?!
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Concentrate all fire on that big bruiser!
Unknown
Guardsman
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
For every one of us who falls, ten more will

take his place!
Dawn of War: Winter

Assault
Nah, soon as you're old enough you're sent

to join the regiment. Colonel Stagler don't
approve of educated men, says it was
educated men that got Krieg bombed to shit
in the first place. The colonel says that all a
man needs to do is fight and die. That's the
Krieg way.
- an unnamed Death Korps soldier, explaining
his illiteracy
Warriors of Ultramar
(Novel) Ultramarines: The
Omnibus by Graham
McNeill, Ch. 6, p. 358
75
Imperial Navy
Book
Quote
Source
Blessed be the coruscating plasma of the engine

room, Spiritus Machina protect us from thy
burning doom. Harness unto our will the power
of light, Let conduit and coil work alright.
Battlefleet
Gothic
Rulebook, pg.
16
Inscription at the top

of the Gothic Monolith
in the Chamber of
Heroes
There is nothing better that a man can do than

lay down his life in the service of the Emperor.
Battlefleet
Gothic
Rulebook, pg.
9
Opening line of the

Imperial Navy Articles
of War
You are expected at all times and in all

situations to conduct yourself in a manner
appropriate to, and mindful of, the great duties
and traditions of the Emperor's Most Glorious
and Honourable Navy.
Battlefleet
Gothic
Rulebook, pg.
5
Catechism of the
Engin-near
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Bayde, Lieutenant
of the 104th Fury
Thunderbolt
Squadron
This is Fury Squadron

commencing fly-over,
dont worry Colonel,
weve got you covered

expansion game, card Interdicition Minor Stratagem", (saved archive page,
dated February 2011, last accessed 6
October 2015)
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Compel Bast, Captain of

Lord Admiral
Ravensberg
The whole principle of naval fighting is to

be free to go anywhere with every damned
thing the Navy possesses.
Battlefleet Gothic
Rulebook, pg. 17
76
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Grenfeld, Captain of
the Hammer of
Justice
The whole principle of naval fighting is to be

free to go anywhere with every damned thing
the Navy possesses.
Battlefleet Gothic
Rulebook, pg. 7
H
Speaker
Hawke FleetAdmiral
Quote
Source
He who seizes the moment, he is the

right man.
Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook,

pg. 11
R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Rath, Admiral, - on receiving

command of the Emperor class
battleship Dominus Astra
A magnificent ship no doubt, but I

would rather have a crew who knew
their airlaps from their transons.
Battlefleet Gothic
Rulebook, pg. 10
Unattributed
Quote
Speaker
Source
The Emperor is master of the galaxy, but the

captain is master of his ship.
Popular naval
saying
Battlefleet Gothic
Rulebook, pg. 10
77
Inquisition
Speaker
The First Book of

Indoctrinations
Quote
Source
The weak will always be led by the strong. Where the strong
see purpose and act, the weak follow; where the strong cry
out against fate, the weak bow their heads and succumb.
Realm of
There are many who are weak; and many are their
Chaos:
temptations. Despise the weak for they shall flock to the call
Slaves to
of the Daemon and the Renegade. Pity them not and scorn Darkness, p.
their cries of innocence - it is better that one hundred
230
innocently fall before the wrath of the Emperor than one
kneels before the Daemon.
The Daemon has many forms. You must know them all. You
must tell the Daemon from his disguise and root him out
Realm of
from the hidden places. Trust no-one. trust not even
Chaos:
yourself. It is better to die in vain than to live an
Slaves to
abomination.
Darkness, p.
The zealous martyr is praised for his valour: the craven and
222
the unready are justly abhorred.
Transcription of Know this adept, for your journey has been long and you are
suppressed texts,
to be trusted as few will ever be. Psykers represent
from the archives
Humanity's future, the ideal creature into which mankind
of the Gethsemene
will evolve; a more powerful, more intelligent and more
Reclusium
capable life form. As yet this race is weak, its members
lacking the mental strength needed to face the dangers of
the psychic universe. Were the new race of psykers permitted
to develop free and unprotected, the whole of Humanity
would soon be destroyed. We few who are privy to this truth
have guarded it selflessly for nigh on four millennia, since
the end of the great schism from which our order was born.
It is our sole concern, for the very future of our race
Codex:
Witch
Hunters
(3rd
Edition),
p.14
78
depends upon us, and us alone.

In Exterminatus
Extremis
Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people.

Those who understand realise that you have no right to let
them live!
Declaration of
Inquisitorial
mandate,
Inquisitorial
representative,
Senate Imperialis
So great has been the calamitousness of these times, and

such the inveterate malice of the heretics, that there has
been nothing ever so clear in our statement of faith, nothing
so surely settled, which they, at the instigation of the enemy
of the human race, have not defiled by some sort of error.
For which cause the holy Inquisition hath made it Its
especial care to condemn and anathematise the principal
errors of the heretics of our time, and to deliver and teach
the true and Imperial doctrine; even as It has condemned,
anathematised, and decreed.
Liber Doctrina
Ordo Hereticus,
Chapter XXVIII
"Exterminatus"
There is no place for the weakwilled or hesitant. Only by

firm action and resolute faith will mankind survive. No
sacrifice is too great. No treachery too small.
Beginning of the
"Rite of
Banishment"
Spirit of noxious immateria, be gone from hence, for as the

Emperor of Mankind, manifold be his blessings, watches
over me, so I will not fear the shadow of the warp [...]
[Needs
Citation]
Codex:
Witch
Hunters
(3rd
Edition),
p.28
[Needs
Citation]
[Needs
Citation]
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Allendyne
His loyalty couldn't be bought at

any price; but it could be rented
remarkably cheaply.
- after the execution of Rogue
Trader Parnis Vermode for
trafficking in interdicted Xenos
artifacts

Inquisitor
Apollyon, Ordo
Xenos
He who allows the alien to live

shares in the crime of its existence.
Warrior Coven (Novel) by C.S. Goto Kill Squad: A Deathwatch Omnibus,

Chapter 2, pg. 202
B
Speaker
Inquisitor
Baptiste
Quote
Source
This is not the first world that Ygethmor has

destroyed, and unless we can halt him now it will not
be the last. Should we fail, millions will die and we
shall not be found blameless.
[Needs Citation]
Who are you to second-guess the will of the

Emperor? His plans are for Him and Him alone to
know. It is enough for us to know that his grand
[Needs Citation]
79
designs for the galaxy unfold as he has foreseen, and

the colossal arrogance displayed by those who claim
to act in his name is both dangerous and tantamount
to heresy.
on the arriving Imperial forces at Medusa V
There's not nearly enough. Whatever foul work the
Arch-enemy does here must be stopped at all costs,
but do not fool yourself Governor; this world will die.
It just remains to be seen how many of us it takes
with it.
following the Armageddon Schism
[Needs Citation]
Arbitrator
General Bex
van Sturm
Inquisitors? Theyre sneaky bastards. Useful, yes,

even necessary, but I wouldnt buy a used aircar
from any of them.
For the Emperor

(Omnibus) by Sandy
Inquisitor
Brand
Of creations most foul I beheld the Lord of All and

knew that I was dead.
Codex: Daemonhunters
(3rd Edition), p. 18
Inquisitor
Havelock
Brundsted
Turning the weapons of the enemy against him is, of

course, of grave danger to ones soul. It is
nonetheless a satisfying thing to see.
Dark Heresy: Daemon

Hunter, p. 66
Inquisitor
Barzano
(possibly Ario
Barzano)
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Commissar
Ciaphas Cain
I'm sure most of the men in the galaxy are familiar

with the sinking feeling that accompanies the
words "Do you think you could do me a little
favour, darling?", but when the woman asking the
question is an inquisitor it's even less wise than
usual to say "No".
Duty Calls (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Defender

of the Imperium
(Omnibus) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter 6, p.
303
This is the Emperors planet, the Emperors

Throne damn you. You want it, you traitor pigs?
Come take it from us!
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
Hold At All Costs - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
Caspiel Rex,
Inquisitor, on
Venta
Secundus
There are those amongst our Ordo who say that I

seek advancement for my own purposes, and they
Inquisitor Lord are correct. My purpose is to destroy the daemonic
Torquemada and if I must rise to command an entire sector to do
Coteaz
so, then so be it. I am a servant of the Emperor and
only those who consort with Warp-spawn need fear
my ambition.
80
Inquisitor
Crescere
Inquisitor
Czevak
The rewards more than outweigh the risks should

we succeed. Imagine it! The Emperor reborn and
walking amongst his people as a living god. Who
can say such a thing is wrong?
- from Inquisitorial Report TH/21/36: The Incunabla
Incident
[Needs Citation]
You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour

of other, more righteous souls. You are merely
protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the
honorable man dry and offer nothing in return.
You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done
nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time
you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now
you will pay for your freedom in the currency of
honest toil and human blood.
- address to the Council of Ryanti
[Needs Citation]
There is a terrible darkness descending upon the

galaxy, and we shall not see it ended in our
lifetimes.
- at the Conclave of Har from The Har
Transcriptorum
[Needs Citation]
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Titus Drake
Things are very seldom what they

seem. In my experience, theyre
usually a damn sight worse.

Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell, Ch. 9, p. 155
E
Speaker
Inquisitor
Gregor
Eisenhorn
Quote
Source
I am forty-two standard years old, in my prime by Imperial

standards, young by those of the Inquisition. All my life, I have
had a reputation for being cold, unfeeling. Some have called
me heartless, ruthless, even cruel. I am not. I am not beyond
emotional response or compassion. But I possess - and my
masters count this as perhaps my paramount virtue - a singular
force of will. Throughout my career it has served me well to
draw on this facility and steel myself, unflinching, at all that
this wretched galaxy can throw at me. To feel pain or fear or
grief is to allow myself a luxury I cannot afford.
Xenos
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Chapter One
I'm excusing a lot because I recognize the trauma and the loss
you have suffered. But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my
authority.
Xenos
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Chapter Three
I'm an inquisitor. I do not get angry.
Xenos
81
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Chapter Three
Xenos
(Novel) by
Dan Abnett,
Chapter Three
-Who do you work for?

-The Emperor.
-Then imagine I'm Him and you won't be far wrong.
Eisenhorn
By the Throne, he was a sycophantic weasel! If ever a windpipe (Omnibus) by
cried out for a brisk half-hitch, his was it.
Dan Abnett,
- commenting on junior Inquisitor Verveuk
[Needs Citation]
My lord, what foetid corner of the Imperium breeds these

fawning idiots? Now you really owe me.
Hereticus
(Novel)
by Dan
Abnett,
Prologue
The guilty and the polluted fight. They deny. They struggle. In
my lifetime, I have brought down nine marked Diabolus. None
went quietly.
Malleus
(Novel)
by Dan
Abnett,
Chapter
Sixteen
We are at War with forces too terrible to comprehend. We

The Book of
cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the
Exorcisms, the
correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our
Verses of
resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of
Inquisitor
Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor. Praise His name for
Enoch
in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.
Realm of
Chaos: Slaves
to Darkness,
p. 220
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
To consort with the heretic is to endanger one's purity.

But to lie to an Inquisitor is to forfeit your soul.
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Inquisitor
Fazael
It's impolite to play with your food. Be done with it.
- ordering his Culexus assassin to kill Ephrael Stern
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Thraviam
Flast,
Inquisitor of
the Ordo
Malleus
I carry with me an Inquisitorial Seal. It is a small,

Codex:
unassuming object contained in a neat box of Pluvian
Daemonhunters
obsidian. It is a modest thing. Relatively plain, adorned (3rd Edition), p. 21
with a single motif and a simple motto. Yet with this little consign a billion souls
to Oblivion.
object I can sign the death warrant of an entire world and
82
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Pontius
Glaw
Your daily work brings you closer and closer to the warp, increases
your understanding of orderless powers. Gradually, without noticing
it, even the most puritanical and rod-stiff inquisitor becomes
seduced... The first step is the knowledge. An inquisitor must
understand the basic traits of Chaos in order to fight it. In a few
years, he knows more about the warp than most untutored cultists.
Then the second step: the moment he breaks the rules and allows
some aspect of Chaos to survive or remain so that he can study it and
learn from it... The third step... the third step is the line itself. When
the inquisitor becomes a radical. When he chooses to use Chaos
against Chaos. When he employs the agencies of the warp. When he
asks the heretical for help... So... are you going to ask me to help
you?
Malleus
(Novel)
by Dan
Abnett,
Chapter
Twenty
Codex:
The daemonic are without number, and their legions span the galaxy. Daemonhu
But faith does not tire. Should it take us an eternity, the Ordo
nters (3rd
Malleus will find and exterminate them all.
Edition),
p. 17
Lord
Hephaestos
Grudd
Look upon this hammer I hold before me, for it is far more than a
weapon. It is a symbol of the Imperial justice that smites the diabolic
enemies of the Imperium wherever they are found, just as I. Though
it has banished even a mighty Greater Daemon to the hell from
Codex:
which it was spawned, it remains true and pure, just as I.
Daemonhu
Furthermore, it is a symbol of my order and my office, of the
nters (3rd
authority granted to me by the divine will of the Emperor. By that
Edition),
authority, I am commanding you and your entire regiment to obey
p. 22
me without question or hesitation. Advance, or it will not be
daemonic blood that stains my hammer this day.
- addressing Colonel Molian of the 223rd Gudrunrite Rifles
The Despoiler comes forth once again, and he cannot be stopped by
force of arms alone. It is his will that the stars be stained red with the
blood of all who oppose him. An infinite horde of fiends, mutants and
cacodaemons obey his command to devour Cadia alive. But he will
not stop there.
[Needs
Citation]
If our faith in the Emperor and our force of arms prove strong, the
forces of Chaos can be driven back into hell. If we are found
wanting, Humanity will fall.
83
H
Speaker
Quote
Source
I am Silas Hand, chosen of the Inquisition. I am the fist of

the Emperor here, and I decide who dies!
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
But this place is infected by Chaos' taint... And where such

infection lies, I have all the authority I need.
when his authority on Ophelia VII was questioned
The nature of Chaos is deceit - unless one looks past
surface impressions, one can never hope to divine the
purpose of the enemy.
Many are the faces of the enemy, and many are the hands
which
do its work. I trust no-one and spare no effort until I
Inquisitor Silas
am
satisfied
that all of Chaos' servants are purged from
Hand
this place.
And lo: by their devices and desires shall Chaos make itself
known to thee.
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Chaos is devious, subtle... The way of shadows.
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Blessed are they that reap the sinners from the sight of the
Emperor.
Damned are those that consort with Chaos!
You must face the truth squarely and without flinching
from duty. Our Enemies are mortal no longer. Mercy for
Lectures to the
such as they is a chimera, self-deception is its only ally.
Ordo,
Dedicate this weapon, given unto your hand at the behest
Inquisitor
of the Emperor, to their destruction. Regard its function as
Historical
your only duty: you live only to bring cleansing fire. Take
Galbus Heer
up your rod and staff, your armour and psycannon, and go
forth.
Daemonifuge
(Graphic Novel
Series), [Needs
Citation]
Realm of Chaos:
Slaves to
Darkness, p. 253
84
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor Lord
Fyodor
Karamazov
There is no such thing as a plea of

innocence in my court. A plea of
innocence is guilty of wasting my time.
Guilty.
Codex: Witch Hunters (3rd

Edition), p. 45
There is no end to the abomination of the Fantasy Flight Games - Teaser to

alien. Do not allow any guise of sentience
"Enemies Without",
Inquisitor Kartize,
to stay your hand there can be no
Supplement to Dark Heresy
Ordo Xenos
hesitation when the survival of humanity Second Edition, (last accessed 9
as a species is at stake.
August 2015)
Inquisitor
Kryptmann
(presumably
Kryptman)
One cannot consider the fate of a single

man, nor ten, nor a hundred, nor a
thousand. Billions will live or die by our
actions here, and we have not the luxury
to count the cost.
Apocalypse, p. 12
L
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor Laschia
Look around you! We must tear down the

rusty and ancient cage that we have built
for ourselves and replace it with a shining
tower that can once more touch the stars.
Without evolution. we are shorn of our
greatest strength.
- at the Oulan Symposium
[Needs Citation]
Inquisitor Lias du
Ortise, Ordo Malleus
They are beyond comprehension, beyond

mortal flesh, beyond even time and
mortality. They are beyond many things,
but never my hate!
FFG Site Teaser for

Enemy Beyond
Supplement for Dark
Heresy Second Edition (last accessed 16
October 2015)
Do not presume to judge me or the

methods I choose to employ, petty-minded
fool. You cannot comprehend the
magnitude of the task I have undertaken
nor the consequences of my failure.
Inquisitor Lichtenstein,
declared
Exocommunicate
Traitoris 998.M41
Eradicate Chaos? Hah! One might as well

try to exterminate one's own shadow. Do
not presume to enforce a simpleton's
philosophy upon the Emperor's
Inquisition. Bury your head if you must,
[Needs Citation]
85
but my eyes are open yet.

excerpt from the sixth trial of Inquisitor
Lichtenstein
Inquisitor Loffengar,
Ordo Xenos
FFG Site Teaser for

If you can confront the xenos, look upon
Enemy Without
the xenos, even think upon the xenos,
Supplement for Dark
without revulsion, then you are as damned
Heresy Second Edition
as they.
(last accessed 11 October
2015)
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
"Lady, I advise you to run away now. Right now. Do as

the brother-sergeant instructs you."
Inquisitor
Mabuse,
Ordo Malleus
Malcador the
Sigillite
Inquisitor
Malden
"Why? Why?!"
(He displays his rosette)
"That's why."
(she runs away, wailing)
- Exchange with the Princess Royal of Cartomax, who has
been attempting to issue orders to Damocles Squad
Brothers of the
Snake (Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Part Six-V, p.
181
You are Astartes indeed, and that will never alter. But you
are a Death Guard no longer. You are a ghost, a figure
that stands between light and dark, trapped amid the grey.
And I have need of such a man.
-to Battle-Captain Garro
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track
5: Flashback
You get more with a kind word and an excruciator than

with just a kind word.
For the Emperor

Hero of the
Imperium
(Omnibus) by
Sandy Mitchell,
Ch. 2, p. 47
Admonitions on Though Mankind is at the brink of this great apotheosis,

the Duties of the
you must be ever vigilant for the stillborn harbingers of
Witch Finder,
this change. Where you seek the pure and strong, there
Inquisitor Malich
too will you find the impure and weak. Where you find
(suppressed M38) but one worthy of life, you will also find a million twisted,
deformed monstrosities for whom death by your hand is a
mercy. Therefore, look first for the mutant, for he may
never hide his sin from you, and in his midst there will be
revealed to you that which you seek. But be ever vigilant,
for even should you find one with the gift, only one in a
thousand psykers will be strong enough to resist the perils
Codex: Witch
Hunters (3rd
Edition), p. 9
86
of the Empyrean and be allowed to live.

Grand Master
Mandulis of the
Grey Knights
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the

daemon, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon
fears.
Inquisitor
Markhov of the
Ordo Hereticus
Foul sorcery shall not lay low the servants of the

Emperor! The power of the Emperor compels thee and
the radiant light of faith abjures thee! Cast thyself before
the Emperor's mercy that he might absolve you of your
sins, even as he drains you of your very soul!
to to a rogue psyker on Epsilon Regalis
Dark Adeptus
(Novel) by Ben
Counter, Chapter
Twenty
Black Bone
Road, [Needs
Citation]
N
Speaker
Inquisitor-General
Neve
Galan Noirgrim,
Master of the Ordo
Malleus
Quote
Source
The place breeds recidivists like a pond breeds scum.

on Chaos Cult activity on Cadia
Malleus
(Novel)
by Dan
Abnett,
Chapter
Twelve
Heresy is like a tree, its roots lie in the darkness whilst its
leaves wave in the sun and to those who suspect nought,
it has an attractive and pleasing appearance. Truly, you
can prune away its branches, or even cut the tree to the
ground, but it will grow up again ever the stronger and
ever more comely. Yet all awhile the root grows thick and
black, gnawing at the bitter soil, drawing its nourishment Warhammer
from the darkness, and growing even greater and more
40,000:
deeply entrenched.
Wargear, p. 55
Such is the nature of heresy, and this is why it is so hard
to destroy, for it must be eradicated leaf, branch, trunk
and root. It must be exorcised utterly or it will return all
the stronger, time and time again, until it is too great to
destroy. Then we are doomed.
- Prelude to "The Abominatus"
Now the past must unveil one of its darkest secrets, the
story of the Plague of Unbelief and its most heinous
Warhammer
vector Bucharis the Apostate Cardinal of Gathalamor.
40,000:
Never has the Imperium endured such a crisis of faith,
Wargear, p. 63
not since the dark days of the Horus Heresy itself. "The
Abominatus"
87
O
Speaker
Quote
Source
If it weren't for the ripe grain-crop waving in the breeze, there'd

be very little evidence this place was ever a farm at all. A few
dozen scattered bodies and a cluster of smoking barns; that's all
there is.
The tracks of more than a dozen fighting vehicles show the size
of the force that hit this place, and the depth of the impressions
on their way out are so deep that the riddle of where all the
machinery has gone is easily solved. Whoever did this took the
lot. Aside from the slaughter, that's the most ineresting part.
Interrogator
Orsene serving Everything has gone, traction engines, grain filters. If it's metal
of any type, it's been taken. Those vehicles must have been
under Inquisitor
dangerously overloaded.
Baptiste
[Needs
Citation]
It doesn't take a Xenologist to figure out who did this. Not many
creatures are degenerate enough to daub on a wall in human
blood.
Sergeant Granth wants to pursue these monstrosities, to gauge
their strength and retaliate if possible. I have agreed. Please
await further reports.
Grand Master
Osma of the
Ordos Helican.
Gregor Eisenhorn, in fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying

Codex:
lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, in the name of the Daemonhun
Ordo Malleus and the Inquisition, I call thee diabolis, and in
ters (3rd
the testimony of thy crimes, I submit this carta. May imperial
Edition), p.
justice account in all balance. The Emperor protects.
10
Q
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Quixos
My enemys enemy is a problem for

later: In the meantime, they might
be useful.
attributed

R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Gideon
Ravenor
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man

may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he
girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
-from The Spheres of Longing
The Armour of
Contempt by Dan
Abnett, p. 3
88
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Qualtak
Shoran
The creatures of the Warp have but one trait

with which you need concern yourself - their
undying contempt for the Emperor. It is your
task to quell the rebellion they preach, and the
only sure way is to destroy them utterly.
White Dwarf 114 (UK), Grey

Knight Terminator Squads by Rick
Priestley and Paul Murphy; also
Warhammer 40,000 Compendium,
p.5
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Atellus
Thrax
Trust in the God-Emperor. But trust your blade, too.
Dark Heresy:
Daemon
Hunter, p. 66
You ask why we must cleanse the xenos. I will tell you. The
filth of the alien and the witch must be exterminated to
Witch Hunter
preserve the purity of the Human race, lest we degenerate into
Tyrus
abomination.
- at the Conclave of Vera
[Needs Citation]
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Even if you could take us both, and I sincerely doubt that,

For the Emperor
I've lost count of the number of people I've met who
(Novel) - Ciaphas
thought they could outrun the Inquisition. But you might
Cain: Hero of the
as well give it a try if you really want to. After all, there's Imperium (Omnibus)
a first time for everything.
by Sandy Mitchell,
-on Gravalax
Ch. 10, p. 172
Inquisitor
Amberley
Vail,
Ordo Xenos
So there it is: unimaginably ancient xenos artefact

somewhere on the planet in the hands of a renegade, the Duty Calls (Novel) hive fleet poised above our heads ready to rip this world
Ciaphas Cain:
apart, hidden 'stealer broods everywhere making an early
Defender of the
start on their behalf, and now a bloody Chaos cult
Imperium (Omnibus)
crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were getting by Sandy Mitchell,
bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas.
Ch. 11, p. 345
-on Periremunda
Some Inquisitors believe the Emperors work is best done
by charging around the place like a grox in a ceramic
Duty Calls (Novel) emporium, leaving a trail of carnage and destruction in
Ciaphas Cain:
their wake, while others prefer not to let the enemies of
Defender of the
all thats good and holy get clean away by making it
Imperium (Omnibus)
blindingly obvious theyre coming for them.
by Sandy Mitchell,
- commenting on Ciaphas Cain's speculation that she
Ch. 12, p. 349, fn. 1
enjoys elaborate disguises and cover stories for their own
sake rather than for stealth
89
Curses! Just when you've finally managed to bring the

Personal log whole world under your evil influence some pathetic little
of Lord
Inquisitor goes whining off to the Adeptus Terra about
Varlak,
rogue psykers and daemonic possession. I mean, do I look
995.M41
possessed? Well, do I? DO I???
- during the Purging of Korsk II
Inquisitor
Vechorte
Codex: Witch
Hunters (3rd
Edition), p. 40
Would you have Mankind grow old and withered,

running too fat on the fruits of remembered glory whilst
its enemies tear at its frail extremities? I think not. With
each trial, we become stronger. My brethren and I will
provide.
- attributed
[Needs Citation]
Unattributed / Anonymous
Quote
Speaker
Source
Grinn is a Brother Inquisitor. I would spare him the agonies

of an Ordo Malleus interrogation chamber if I could. Tell
your brethren to shoot to kill.
Ordo Malleus
Inquisitor to Grey
Knights
[Needs
Citation]
90
Officio Assassinorum
Author and
respective
organization
Quote
The "Overlord Instinct" or the "I'm the King of the

Johannes Dixen,
Castle" syndrome works in our favour when we crush
Lectures to the
rebellions. The traitors are safe and sound behind their
School of
fortress walls. We, the loyal servants of Our Emperor,
Assassins
need look no further for our targets.
Assassin proverb
Motto of the
Officio
Assassinorum
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of

the mind.
For those that defy the Imperium, only the Emperor

can judge your crimes.
Only in death can you receive the Emperor's
Judgement
Source
Warhammer
Siege,
p. 118
Warhammer
40,000: Rogue
Trader,
p. 85
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition), p.
2,
Eternal
Damnation
(Graphic Novel),
Short Story The
Ionis Gambit
Some may be able to avoid the judiciaries of the

Adeptus Arbites, fewer may be able to face off against Codex: Assassins
the Imperial Guard and the Adeptus Astartes, but let it
(2nd Edition),
be known that none can stand against the Officio
p. 3
Assassinorum.
Decree
Assassinorum
We do not determine the guilty; we do not decide the Codex: Assassins

punishment; we are merely the cold intrument of the
(3rd Edition),
Emperor's vengeance. There is no form of death
p. 14
unknown to us; there is no form of terror beyond out
means; there is no enemy outside our reach. We are
the blade that hovers over the throat of the traitor; we
are the bullet that awaits the heretic's skull; we are the
91
poison in the throat of the alien.

Dicatus Callidus
Dicatus Callidus
We are the killing tools of the Imperium, we live to

honor the Callidus temple and die to serve the
Emperor.
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition),
To assume the shape of the accursed and deliver death p. 14
from the purity within you - that is to be Callidus.
Callidus Temple
proverb
Treachery is its own reward.
For The Emperor

(Novel) by Sandy
Mitchell,
Ch. 5, p. 113
Motto of the
Culexus Temple
That which is unknown and unseen always commands

the greatest fear
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition),
p. 20
Eversor Temple,
Modus Exectus
Sow the seeds of damnation and I shall reap the souls

of the tainted
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition),
p. 15
Modus Exectus
Fear me, for I am your apocalypse
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition),
p. 17
Exitus Acta Probat:

Motto of the
Vindicare Temple
The Outcome Justifies The Deed.
Three things matter in marksmanship Training Dogma,

Vindicare Temple
location, location, location.
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition), p.
11,
Eternal
Damnation
(Graphic Novel)
Short Story The
Samos Sanction
Codex: Assassins
(2nd Edition),
pg. 11
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Space Marines
Tome
Ritual and
Responses,
Tome of Truths
Foretold,
Legiones
Astartes, Library
Copy
Quote
Without the Dark, there can be no Light,
We have purpose
Without the Lie, there can be no Truth,
We have purpose
Without the War, there can be no Victory,
We have purpose
Without the Death, there can be no sacrifice,
We have purpose
Without the Hope there can be no Future,
We have purpose
Without the Loyalty there can be no one chapter,
We have purpose
Without the Emperor, there is nothing,...
And we would have no purpose
Source
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 71
Adeptus
Astartes, The
Book of Faith
At battle's end, speak the Liturgy in a clear voice.

Respect the bravery of the living. Give the Rite of
Passage to the fallen. Honour the battle gear of the
dead. To do all this with reverence, even when
exhausted by battle and weary from the field, is the
duty of a Chaplain. It is his burden and satisfaction.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
25
Medic Credo
Do not fail your Brothers. Though their bodies die,

their spirit must return to the Chapter. That is your
charge.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
28
Excerpt from the
During the righteous pacification of the heretical
[Needs Citation]
93
Liber Honorus
Imperial Fists
Chapter,
Legiones
Astartes
insurgence on Iduno, Lysander (at the time still a

sergeant) bravely led his squad in the stubborn
defence of the Colonial Bridge. For fourteen hours
Lysander and his men held against wave after wave
of attacks by the hateful rebels who had forsworn the
glorious Emperor of Mankind for the False Glories
of the Fallen Gods. Well versed in the Rites of Battle,
Lysander guided his men surely and strongly,
bringing the vengeance of the Emperor in volleys of
controlled, effective bolter fire. When Lysander and
the survivors of his squad were relieved, it took
several hours to clear the corpses of the shadowshrouded recreants so the bridge could be crossed.
'Leaders Of The
Adeptus
Astartes', A
Most Secret
Report,
Compiled For
His Most
Supreme
Excellency The
Paternoval
Envoy By His
Humble Servant
Master Maximus
Pliny
Marneus Augustus Calgar is the renowned master of

the Ultramarines, and his countless exploits while
defeating the enemies of the Emperor (may his
divine light always guide us) have earned him no
small measure of fame throughout the Imperium. In
particular, his stubborn defence and ultimate
crushing defeat of the Tyranids during the 1st
Tyrannic War has become the stuff of legend
amongst the more vulgar elements of the population
on those planets that owe allegiance to the
Ultramarines. But fame and glory ever begets
jealousy and spite, and these heroic tales, fuelled by
Marneus' fierce (some might say intractable) pride,
has earned him and his brethren many high-ranking
enemies. While I can find no direct evidence, it
seems probable that these enemies engineered the
now infamous Court of Inquiry into Marneus'
actions during the suppression of the uprising on
Colony Beta//54, where Marneus was quite rightly
exonerated of all charges, if his excellency will allow
me to put forward my own, very humble, opinion.
Recent reports that Marneus was slain during the
defence of Ichar IV appear to be based upon nothing
but base rumour and tawdry gossip, and all the
reliable evidence I have found indicates the he
continues to lead the Ultramarines to this day.
[Needs Citation]
Preface to
Chapter V,
'Warrior
Pilgrimages of
the Angels of
Death'
The final destination on my Warrior Pilgrimage to

Rynn's World was my voyage to the Jadeberry Hill
Necropolis. Upon that blasted knoll are to be found
hundreds of hand-carved headstones, each one a
memorial to a fellow battle brother of the Crimson
Fists. Each stone is engraved with the battle honours
of a hero whose mortal remains will never be
[Needs Citation]
94
recovered, his sacrifice an example to us all. I

lingered at that bleak place for a day and a night,
meditating upon the foes I had defeated and the
terrible battles I had fought to return here and atone
for my weakness. Come the morn, I was struck by a
revelation. Though many of them had died here, my
brethren had prevailed in the face of adversity. I
would strive to emulate their example and prove
myself worthy of the trust placed in me by my
Chapter.
Litany of
Devotion
Where there is uncertainty, I shall bring light

Where there is doubt, I shall sow faith
Where there is shame, I shall point atonement
Where there is rage, I shall show its course
My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.
Meditations
upon the Fang
The Space Wolves revere the Emperor as the greatest

warrior of all time, the only being to have ever bested
Leman Russ in hand-to-hand combat. When Space
Wolves call upon Russ or the Emperor in battle, it is
to witness the deeds of men and to judge the fallen.
Second Book of
Chantings
There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and

protector.
Verses of
Sigismund,
Book CIV, Verse
I
You carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it

destroy the shadows.
Space Marine
pledge
What is your life?

My honour is my life.
What is your fate?
My duty is my fate.
What is your fear?
My fear is to fail.
What is your reward?
My salvation is my reward.
What is your craft?
My craft is death.
What is your pledge?
My pledge is eternal service
Accursed
Eternity
(Novella) Architect of Fate
(Anthology),
Ch. 7 pp.100101
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 27
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
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What is your Duty? To serve Emperor's Will.

What is Emperor's Will? That we fight and die.
Litany of the
Space Marines
What is Death? It is our duty.
[Needs Citation]
What is your Duty? ...
Inscription upon
the Arcus
Daemonica,
attributed to the
Emperor of
Mankind
One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness

One last blade, forged in defiance of fate
Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered
And my final gift to the species I failed
The Emperor's
Gift (Novel)
Prologue p.13
A
Speaker
Abrahim Kobal,
Techmarine of the
Salamanders
Quote
Source
Nothing survives its touch, nothing escapes

its grasp. It is a weapon of unspeakable
power and unmatched devastation a
horror from a bygone age.
-(about Vortex Grenade)
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
expansion game,
card "Vortex
Grenade - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page,
dated February
2011, last accessed
5 October 2015)
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
Warhammer
40,000: Dawn of
War
Through the destruction of our enemies do

we earn our salvation!
Warhammer
40,000: Dawn of
War
Librarian Isador Akios

of the Blood Ravens
Justicar Alaric of the

Grey Knights
We do not know what our chances of

survival are, so we fight as if they were
zero. We do not know what we are facing,
so we fight as if it was the dark gods
themselves. No one will remember us now
and we may never be buried beneath Titan,
so we will build our own memorial here.
The Chapter might lose us and the
Grey Knights
(Novel) by Ben
Counter, Chapter
Twenty
96
Imperium might never know we existed,

but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The
Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so
badly that it will never forget us until the
stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes
it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying,
its last thought will be of us. That is our
memorial - carved into the heart of Chaos.
We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have
already won.
You had to use the whole Trail. Saint
Evisser, the cardinals, every single citizen,
you had to move them all into position to
beat us. Remember that. You put your plan
in motion before the Trail even existed,
because you knew it would take nothing
less. We made you work, daemon. You
feared us so much you had to move star
systems to make us dance to your tune.
Androcles,
Captain of the Star
Phantoms
The lives of millions, and the honour of

our Chapter, hang in the balance brothers.
Failure is not an option.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
expansion game,
card Vital Mission
- Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page,
dated February
2011, last accessed
6 October 2015)
Captain Gabriel
Angelos,
Blood Ravens
While the enemies of the Emperor still

draw breath, there can be no peace.
Warhammer
40,000: Dawn of
War
Chaplain Hauis
Argento,
Crimson Fists 2nd
Company
If your life is given in service to the

Emperor, your death shall not be in vain.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), pg. 58
Commander Argentius,
Silver Skulls
Victory does not always rest with the big

guns: but, if we rest in front of them we
shall be lost.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), pg. 79
Chaplain-Dreadnought
Armand Titus,
Here we stand and here shall we die,

unbroken and unbowed, though the very
Imperial Armour
Volume Nine - The
97
hand of death itself come for us, we will

spit our defiance to the end!
-(The Last Stand on Khymara Ellipsis)
Badab War - Part

One, pg. 124
Arn Ironjaw, Wolf

Guard
Street by street and block by block well

sweep them out. There are snipers on the
rooftops and the underpass is heavily
mined. Its going to be dangerous, its
going to be fun.
-at the conquest of Carste
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
expansion game,
card "Cityfight Major Stratagem",
(saved archive
page, dated
February 2011,
last accessed 7
October 2015)
Artor Amhrad,
Chapter Master of the
Astral Knights
(deceased)
Victory often rests on the correct weaponry

being in the right place and at the right
time. Even the most destructive weapons of
war are worthless if absent from the battle.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), pg. 74
Chaplain Aston,
Fire Hawks 10th
Company
The uniforms of the Imperial Guard are

camouflaged in order to protect their
wearers by hiding them from sight.
Howling Griffons
[Needs Citation]
The principle is that what the enemy

cannot see he cannot kill. This is not the
way of the Adeptus Astartes. A Space
Marines armour is bright with heraldry
that proclaims his devotion to his Chapter
and the beloved Emperor of Mankind. Our
principle is that what the enemy can see, he
will soon learn to fear
High Chaplain Astorath

of the Blood Angels
Blood Ravens
Devastator Sergeant
Avitus
Treat them with honour, my Brothers. Not

because they will bring us victory this day,
but because their fate will one day be
ours."
-on the Death Company
Codex: Blood
Angels (5th
Edition), pg. 44
Come you aliens, show me what passes for

fury amongst your misbegotten kind!
Dawn of War 2
We are the Emperor's angels of death, not

his angels of mercy.
Dawn of War 2
Don't fool yourselves. War is all we are!
Dawn of War 2
98
Killing is all we are good for! The rest is

delusion.
We are weapons. There is the Emperor,
and there is war. Nothing more.
Dawn of War 2
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Barabel,
Praetors of
Orpheus
Techmarine
Offer the incantation of activation, speak

forth the litany of retribution and deliver
unto the enemy the wrath of the
Omnissiah.

Empires expansion game,
card Special Ammunition Minor Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
Grand Master
Belial of the
Dark Angels
Fenris breeds heroes like a bar breeds

drunks - loud, proud and spoiling for a
fight.
Codex: Space Wolves (5th

Edition), p. 21
Bjorn the FellHanded,

Venerable
Dreadnought of
the Space
Wolves
I was on Prospero, brothers. I was there

when we burned their heresy from the
galaxy. I saw Leman Russ lay waste to
their cherished places. I saw Traitors
weep from corrupted eyes as we turned
their pyramids of glass into barren
wasteland. That will not happen here.
They were made weak by the knowledge
of their treachery. We are made strong by
the knowledge of our fidelity. Where Tizca
fell, the Aett will stand. Though it may
cost the lives of us all, the Aett will stand.
-during the Battle of the Fang
Battle of the Fang (Novel)

by Chris Wraight, Chapter
Fourteen, pg. 304
God-Emperor? Calling him a god was

how all this mess started.
The Emperor's Gift (Novel)

by Aaron DembskiBowden,
Chapter Twenty-Five, pg.
290
Black Templars
"Lead us from death to victory, from

falsehood to truth.
Lead us from despair to hope, from faith
to slaughter.
Lead us to His strength and an eternity of
Codex: Black Templars (4th

Edition)[Needs Citation]
99
war.
Let His wrath fill our hearts.
Death, war, and blood;
in vengeance serve the Emperor and the
name of Dorn!"
- "Suffer not the Unclean to live", prayer
and vow of the Black Templars
"Trust in the Emperor at the hour of
battle.
Trust to him to intercede, and protect his
warriors true as they deal death on alien
soil.
Turn their seas to red with the blood of
their slain.
Crush their hopes, their dreams
And turn their songs into cries of
lamentation."
- "Uphold the honour of the Emperor", vow
of the Black Templars

"Smite now the scions of the Witch!

Grant us the strength to pierce their
unclean flesh!
To cover their fields with the pale form of
the blasphemous dead!
To drown the thunder of guns with the
shriek of their dying!
To lay waste to their citadels with
hurricanes of fire!
To wring the hearts of their kin with
unavailing grief!
To send them into the waste of their
desolate land in rags and hunger, broken
in spirit, worn with travail and begging
for the refuge of the grave.
We ask it, in the spirit of wrath, O Master
of Mankind!"
- "Abhor the Witch, Destroy the Witch",
prayer and vow of the Black Templars

"O Emperor, in wrath rejoicing at bloody

wars, fierce and untamed,
whose mighty power doth make the
strongest walls from their foundations
shake.
All-conquering Master of Mankind, be
pleased with this war's tumultuous roar.

100
Delight in swords and fists red with alien

blood, and the dire ruins of savage battle.
Rejoice in furious challenge, and
avenging strife, whose works with woe
embitter human life!"
- "Accept any challenge, no matter the
odds", prayer and vow of the Black
Templars
"No Fear! No Pity! NO REMORSE!"
- War Cry of the Black Templars
[Needs Citation]
Ragnar
Blackmane,
Wolf Lord of
the Space
Wolves
We may be few, and our enemies many.

Yet so long as there remains one of us still
fighting, one who still rages in the name
of justice and truth, then by the Allfather,
the galaxy shall yet know hope.
Paulian Blantar,
Iron Father of
the Kaargul
Clan of the Iron
Hands
The Machine is strong. We must purge the

weak, hated flesh and replace it with the
blessed purity of metal. Only through
permanence can we truly triumph, only
through the Machine can we find victory.
Punish the flesh. Iron in mind and body.
Hail the Machine!
[Needs Citation]
War Cry of the

Blood Angels
"For the Emperor and Sanguinius!"
[Needs Citation]
Motto of the
Blood Ravens
Chapter
"Knowledge is power. Guard it well."
[Needs Citation]
Blood Ravens
Librarian saying
An open mind is like a fortress with its

gates unbarred and unguarded.
Captain Eddan
Bourne, Silver
Skulls No. 2
Assault
Company
Show me a fortress and I'll show you a

ruin.
Codex: Space Wolves (5th

Edition), p. 95
Dawn of War
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
101
Marneus Calgar,
Chapter Master of
the Ultramarines
We pray for our brethren who pilot the

Dreadnoughts. Though they take new form, their
souls, and their weapon mounts, remain pure.
Damnation starts with little steps, by arrogantly
thinking that you are wiser than our great
forbears, by tinkering with truth, by
compromising, by departing from the straight
and narrow path of the Emperors light.
Know this, son of Guilliman. The father of our
Chapter watches over us always. He knows your
soul, your strengths and, aye, even your fears. I
share your pain at the loss of Brother-Captain
Idaeus, but to dishonour his name with grief is
wrong. He gave his life so that his battle-brothers
would live and the enemies of the Emperor would
be defeated. A warrior can ask for no better death
than that. Captain Idaeus was the senior officer,
and you were duty bound to follow his orders
when they were given. The chain of command
must not be broken or we are nothing. Discipline
and order are everything on the battlefield and
the army that lives by that credo will always
triumph.
- to Uriel Ventris, shortly after his promotion to
captaincy of the 4th Company
We are the Ultramarines, the Sons of Guilliman.
Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we
stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail.
Nothing shall stay our wrath.
We follow in the footsteps of Guilliman. As it is
written in the Codex, so shall it be.
You all heard Varro's words. The daemon is
vulnerable, exposed, and we have one chance to
end this. Right here and right now, the fate of
Ultramar is in our hands. You are the best and
bravest of your Chapter, and though we may die
in these mountains, we will die in service to
something greater than blood, something greater
than land. We fight for what we know is right. I
will lead you in that fight, and all I ask is that
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
59
[Needs Citation]
Nightbringer
(Novel) Ultramarines: The
Omnibus by
Graham McNeill,
Ch. 2, p. 47
Warhammer
40,000 5th Edition
Rulebook[Needs
Citation]
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 16
The Chapter's Due
(Novel) by
Graham McNeill,
Ch. 23, p. 307
102
you fight like the heroes you are!

- rallying the survivors of the Ultramarines 1st
Company on Talassar, for a final charge against
the Daemon Prince M'kar
For Ultramar! CHARGE!

- on Talassar
The Chapter's Due

(Novel) by
Graham McNeill,
Ch. 23, p. 308
Memorum Libris
de Petronius
Caligarus,
Ultramarines
Captain
Only a madman knows no fear. A warrior knows

what fear is, he feels it in his stomach, he
understands fear better than any other mortal
can. What makes us strong is that we have
conquered fear, overcome it not once but many
times, over and over again, until the process has
become instinctive. but no matter how many
battles you fight and how many victories you win,
your fear will never completely leave you. Learn
to live with that fear. Learn to master your fear.
But never forget that there are things in this
universe that even you cannot face and live,
abominations so terrible that their very
appearance will sear the flesh from your face and
shrivel your eyes. Such things cannot be fought,
and to confront them would be nothing but a
futile waste of life. In those situations remember
your vows to serve the Emperor, and remember
also that you serve him best alive and not
sacrificed upon the altar of vain glory.
Chaplain Carnak,
Imperial Fists 3rd
Company
Everything has a purpose, Proteus. So the

Emperor ordains.
Ultramarines - A
Warhammer
40,000 Movie
The blasphemy of the Tyranids is such that only

one solution is acceptable. Extermination. There
can only be two sides in a fight - choose carefully,
lest you and I find ourselves on different sides.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 87
Chaplain Ortan
Cassius,
Ultramarines
Master of
Sanctity
What is it to be a Space Marine?

-It is to be death!
What is it to be death?
-It is to be the destroyer, the end of all things.
What is it to end life?
-It is an honour, to be the executioners of the
Emperor.
[Needs Citation]
Catechism of Hate
(Novella)
by Gav Thorpe,
Chapter Nine
103
Why do we fight?
-To protect the Imperium and deliver mankind
from the evil of the xenos, the mutant and the
heretic!
What is the xenos?
-A blight to be purged!
What is the mutant?
-A cancer to be excised!
What is the heretic?
-A shame to be expunged!
What is the bolter, the flamer, the missile?
-The incarnation of destruction, by which we bring
about the death of the Emperor's foes!
What is the armour, the helm and the shield?
-The embodiment of our faith, our determination
given form.
Who is the primarch?
-Our father, our guide, our king!
Who is the Chapter Master?
-The primarch's regent, to whom we swore oaths,
the voice of the Emperor in the mortal world.
What are our oaths?
-The steel that binds our lives to the Emperor.
What did we swear?
-Our lives are as nought in the vision of the
Emperor, save that by them we shall destroy all
foes.
What is the fate of all foes?
-To perish in the fire of battle and be cleansed from
the galaxy.
Who will prevail against the darkness?
-The Ultramarines!
Who are the swords of the Emperor?
-The Ultramarines!
Who are the sons of Magragge?
-The Ultramarines!
For the Emperor and the primarch! Death!
Bring death to our foes!
-The Macragge Catechism of Hate
We must scour them from the stars before they do
same to us.
-about Tyranid's menace
Consumption,
#039 card of the
"The Great
Devourer",
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Conquest Card
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Flight Games (last
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104
2015)
The roar of engines, the recoil of cannons. That
is where the true joy of battle lies.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 89
Let them hide in their fortress. My crew can use

the target practice.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 80
Chaplain Judd
Clausel,
Ultramarines 4th
Company
What is the terror of death? That we die with our

work incomplete. What is the joy of life? To die
knowing our task is done. I stand alongside
warriors of honour, and the warrior who acts out
of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself.
Even a warrior's death--if it is honourable--is a
reward and can be no failure, for it has come
through duty. Seek honour as you act, and you
will know no fear. 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. If one organ fails, the
whole dies. And if the whole dies, no single organ
can survive alone. And above all, remember
this... for a warrior the only crime is cowardice.
Defenders of
Ultramar (Graphic
Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Chapter
4
Captain Alessio
Cortez, Crimson
Fists
I haven't lost an arm, brother. It's right over

there.
Rynn's World
(Novel) by Steve
Parker, Part Three,
Chapter 8
Sergeant Antaro
Chronus,
Ultramarines
"Look to your battle gear and it will protect you. "

"We guard it with our lives. "
"As your armour guards your life. "
Exchange
between a
Servitor and
Ultramarines
Sergeant Crastor
"As it has my fallen brethren. "

"Honour the craft of death. "
Ultramarines - A
Warhammer
40,000 Movie
"We serve only the Emperor."

"Honour the battle gear of the dead. "
"We ask only to serve. "
105
Carab Culln of
the Red Scorpions
Brother-Captain
CyneWolf of the
Deathwatch
If my Marines are ordered to serve alongside

these tainted half-animals, they shall do so. But
upon their return they shall be quarantined and
purified by every means in our Apothecarion.
on Ogryns
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
52
Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need

to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder
than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud
to die".
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
84
They are an effective force in their way, and I do

not doubt the Emperor's wisdom in allowing
tainted subhuman filth to serve Him. But my men
shall not be exposed to the corruption of these
beasts.
on Beastmen
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, h:
p. 150
The ethics of booklearning and scholarship I

leave to the savants. But for what it's worth, I
would have burned it without a second thought.
on the Necroteuch affair
Xenos (Novel),
by Dan Abnett,
Chapter TwentyOne
D
Speaker
Dac'tyr,
Captain of the
Salamanders
4th Company
Dante,
Commander of
the Blood
Angels
Quote
Source
Shields are holding, power at 44%. Let

them spend their impotent wrath.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
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2015)
For eleven hundred years, I have fought

and I have seen the darkness in our galaxy.
I have seen the vileness of the alien and the
heresy of the mutant. I have witnessed the
sin of possession. I have seen all the evil
that the galaxy harbours, and I have slain
all whose presence defiles the Emperor. I
have seen what you will see. I have fought
Codex: Blood Angels (4th

Edition), p. 6
106
what you must fight, and I have slain what

you must slay... so fear not and be proud,
for we are the sons of Sanguinius, the
protectors of Mankind. Aye, we are indeed
the Angels of Death.
Captain Denon
of the
Salamanders
2nd Company
You will fight in the streets, and in the

habs! You will fight for the enemy's death,
not your own lives! You will fight and you
will drive this alien filth from the
Emperor's city. You will do these things, or
you will face my wrath.
[Needs Citation]
Sergeant
D'Kestrel,
Raven Guard
1st Company
We go where we wilt. We slay who we wilt.

Let the Emperor judge the righteousness of
our deeds.
Codex: Space Marines (5th

Edition), p. 62
Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or

failing that give me a thousand other troops
attributed

The Emperor has no like, Loken. There are

no gods in this hollow universe to keep him
company. So he made us, demi-gods, to
stand beside him. I have never quite come
to terms with my status. Does that surprise
you? I see what I am capable of, and what
is expected of me, and I shudder. The mere
fact of me frightens me sometimes.
Horus Rising (Novel) by

Dan Abnett, Part One,
Chapter 6, pg. 134
Don't be insulted, but there is something

very human about you, Loken, for an
Astartes.
Horus Rising (Novel) by

Dan Abnett, Part One,
Chapter 6, pg. 136
-If the Warmaster has turned his back on

Terra, what are my orders?
-Tell him his brother Rogal will have him
answer for it.
-to First Captain Sigismund
The Flight of the Eisenstein

(Novel)
by James Swallow
, Chapter 14, pg. 348
If there is nobility remaining within

Konrad's Legion, then it is hidden deeply
beneath too many layers of twisted lusts,
deviance, and disobedience. Their ways are
foolish, ill-considered and a hindrance to
the orderly flow of controlled war. The time
Soul Hunter (Novel) by

Aaron Dembski-Bowden,
Part One, Chapter 6, p. 123
Rogal Dorn,
Primarch of
the Imperial
Fists
107
is coming when the Night Lords must

answer for their behaviour and be brought
back into the doctrine of Imperial warfare,
lest we lose them to their own deviant
hungers.
There is no enemy. The foe on the
battlefield is merely the manifestation of
that which we must overcome. He is doubt,
and fear, and despair. Every battle is fought
within. Conquer the battlefield that lies
inside you, and the enemy disappears like
the illusion he is.
-Attributed
Seventh Retribution
(Novel) by Ben Counter, KDay + 11 Days, pg. 158
E
Speaker
Quote
Source
The
Emperor
of
Mankind
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of

themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the
furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely
muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the
mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by
plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have
tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them
in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are
the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and
they shall know no fear.
on the Creation of the Space Marines.
The Horus
Heresy Book
One Betrayal pg.
26
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
Fafnir Rann, Captain of

the Imperial Fists Legion
and founder of the
Executioner Space Marine
Chapter
You may cleave to your courage but

that will fail you, look to your
weapons but you will find them not
enough. Run, fight, hide, pray, cry out
or cover - it does not matter, for we are
come.
Imperial Armour
Volume Ten - The
Badab War - Part
Two, pg. 84
Captain Ferdina, Lord of

the Marches of the Tigers
Argent
We face greenskin invasion rimward,

Eldar raiding coreward, rebellion
trailing and the tendrils of a Hive
Fleet incoming spinward. Situation
excellent, attacking on all fronts
Deathwatch: Rites of
Battle pg. 36
108
G
Source
Quote
Notes
For Ultramar and for duty,

For past and for future,
For Terra and the Emperor,
No brother falls forgotten.
-Last rites of the Ultramarines
Captain Erikon
Gaius,
Ultramarines
21st Company
Captain
Nathaniel Garro,
Death Guard
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track 4:
In The Tunnel
Kinsmen, we are being tested. We cannot know

what madness has overcome Lorgar, we do not
know the fate of our brothers and our primarch.
But what we do know is duty. Our duty is to hold
this approach to the city, to deny it to the enemy.
These were Guilliman's last words to us. Meles
gave his life in service of that command, and if
called, then so shall we.
-during the Battle of Calth
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track 4:
In The Tunnel
My name is Nathaniel Garro, and I am a Legion of

One.
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track 3:
The Field of Battle
-You court death, Garro, like some ancient KnightErrant.

-That's as good a title as any, Brother.
-Exchange between Tylos Rubio and Garro, after
Rubio's Captain demands Garro's name and rank
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track 7:
Something
Approaches
Gerhart of the
Black Templars
Yes, I have a damn question... what wars must

there be in creation that require warriors like you?
-as Aspirant Raclaw, on his first sight of a Space
Marine
Damnation
Crusade (Graphic
Novel) by Dan
Abnett, Chapter
One
Sergeant Adar
Geronan,
Imperial Fists
4th Company
Raise the flag high. Let those degenerates know

who comes to claim their lives this day!
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 55
109
Grand Master
Gideon of the
Dark Angels
Ravenwing
The enemy have been sighted. I am going to

engage. In the name of the Emperor: Ravenwing Attack! Attack! ATTACK!
Chaplain
Gonzago
Bravery is stronger than Adamantium. One is the

stuff of the soul-forges, the other an illusion of
safety created by fools. Adamantium walls cannot
keep us out! We have the courage of the Emperor!
And in the Emperor's name... ATTACK!!
ATTACK!! NO PRISONERS!!
during Operation Carthage (the second
pacification of Isstvan V)
[Needs Citation]
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
22,
Warhammer
Siege, p. 109
We of the Librarium must be aware of Chaos. Yet

we do not ourselves aim to contend with Chaos,
unless compelled to.
Librarian Franz
Grenzstein of
the Imperial
Fists
Dont confuse gratitude for a serendipitous event

with any cloying compassion towards the author of
that event...
True justice is quite simply the will of the Emperor.
Space Marine
(Novel) by Ian
Watson: Chapter
Fifteen
The Chaos Power known as Tzeentch conceives

plans to alter history schemes which are altogether
too devious and far-flung for any human being to
hope to comprehend.
Skold Greypelt
of the Space
Wolves
It is the way of Fenris. We stay as long as we can.

Fight as hard as we can. Kill as much as we can.
Only when we can do no more do we move on.
on Shadrac
Lone Wolves
(Graphic Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
You ask a lot of questions, Marlin. You know what

I think? I think you need another drink.
on Shadrac to Sergeant Marlin of the Xth Slavok
Regiment
Lone Wolves
(Graphic Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Do you ever go into a fight thinking there's no

point giving my best, I'll get another chance later?
We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot.
Making it count is all that matters.
on Shadrac to Sergeant Marlin of the Xth Slavok
Regiment
Lone Wolves
(Graphic Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
110
Chaplain
Grimaldus of
the Black
Templars, hero
of Hive
Helsreach
Logan Grimnar,
Great Wolf of
the Space
Wolves
Primarch
Roboute
Guilliman of the
Ultramarines
To the darkness I bring fire. To the ignorant I

bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may
live, but I will visit naught but death and eternal
damnation on those who refuse them.
Let a wave of repugnance for the enemy wash over
you. Let hatred fill you. Hate is good, for our goal
is a Human galaxy. We are called by the Emperor
with a sacred duty to conquer it in His name.
at the Sermon of Harnoth
[Needs Citation]
White Dwarf 311

(US), "Assault on
Cephian IV," p. 25
by Graham
McNeill [Needs
Citation]
Logan Grimnar, Bloody-Handed Warrior

He piles the skulls of his enemies
He builds a mound of the fallen
His foes weep rivers of blood
Logan Grimnar, strong wolf of the pack
His Sword hungers for red flesh
His guns thirst for battle
He laughs amidst the war-din
Logan Grimnar, father of wolves
His sons haunt his enemies
Slay them where they falter
And bring their pelts to Fenris.
- from The Saga Of The Old Wolf (excerpt)
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 58
Follow me, Sons of Russ! This night our enemies

shall feel the fangs of the Wolf!
during the Assault on Fort Damnation
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), Back
Cover
To admit defeat is to blaspheme against the

Emperor.
[Needs Citation]
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.
[Needs Citation]
Whatever the Emperor's will is, be sure it will find

you out.
-attributed
Nightbringer
(Novel) by
Graham McNeill,
Chapter Eleven
Let them bestride the galaxy like the gods of old,
Codex: Space
111
sheltering Mankind from destruction at the hands

of an uncaring universe.
- from the teachings of Guilliman, as laid down in
the Apocrypha of Skaros, on the Space Marines
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 31
It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes:

engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that
they can then be no part of.
- shortly before the Battle of Calth
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Acquisitio
n, Chapter 3, p. 30
Space Marines excel at warfare because they were

designed to excel at everything. Each of you will
become a leader, a ruler, the master of your world
and, because there is no more fighting to be done,
you will bend your transhuman talents to
governance and culture.
- shortly before the Battle of Calth
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Acquisitio
n, Chapter 3, p. 30
'''Never wish for danger. Danger needs no help.

There is no such thing as fate that can be tempted,
but morale is never improved by an active lust for
war.
- Remark 56.xxi
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Acquisitio
n, Chapter 3, p. 40
Two things to note there, Sergeant. One is that

there is no such thing as a minor detail.
Information is victory. One cannot and should not
dismiss any data until one is in a position to
evaluate its significance, and that only comes with
hindsight. So all detail is important until
circumstances render it redundant.
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Acquisitio
n, Chapter 8, pg.
94
My brother, hear me. Warriors of the XVII Legion,

hear me. This violence is against the code of the
Legiones Astartes and against the will of our
father, the Emperor. In the name of the Five
Hundred Worlds of Ultramar, I implore you to
cease fire and stand down. Open communication
with me. Let us speak. Let us settle this. This action
is an error of the most tragic kind. Cease fire. I,
Roboute Guilliman, give you my solemn pledge
that we will deal with each other frankly and fairly
if these hostilities can be suspended. I urge you to
respond.
- vox transmission, Battle of Calth, Mark 0.00.01
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
System//Kill,
Chapter 1, p. 167
112
Oath of the
Lorgar of Colchis. You may consider the following.

One: I entirely withdraw my previous offer of
solemn ceasefire. It is cancelled, and will not be
made again, to you or to any other of your
motherless bastards. Two: you are no longer any
brother of mine. I will find you, I will kill you, and
I will hurl your toxic corpse into hell's mouth.
- vox transmission, Battle of Calth, Mark 1.57.42
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
System//Kill,
Chapter 3, p. 195
What does not kill me... is not trying hard enough.
Know No Fear
(Novel)
by Dan Abnett,
Ushkul//Thu,
Chapter Two, pg.
348
They shall be pure of heart and strong of body,

untainted by doubt and unsullied by selfaggrandisement. They will be bright stars on the
firmament of battle, Angels of Death whose
shining wings bring swift annihilation to the
enemies of Man. So it shall be for a thousand times
for a thousand years, unto the very end of eternity
and the extinction of mortal flesh.
Codex Astartes opening
Codex: Space
Marines (6th
Edition) (e-book)
pg. 246
I am the fist, clenched tight in ceramite, smashing

with the force of a Legion. I am the blade, awaiting
my foes flesh, as keen as the Emperor could make
me. I am the bolt, fired from afar fleet and true,
an end to all who stand before the Imperium of
Man.
---refrence to raise the combat confusion with
clarity, to banish doubt and reinforce a legionarys
purpose.
The Honoured
(Novella), Chapter
Two
For the Emperor stands behind his sons as the

primarchs behind their captains. It is a captains
duty to place legionary lives in harms way before
his own. There is too little glory in the galaxy to go
around and officers must be generous in the trust
they place in others for one day such brothers
must be captains too.
---about the promotion of the newly assigned Space
Marines
The Honoured
(Novella), Chapter
Five
We die, though our war is eternal,
Crucible (Short
113
Seventh
Brotherhood,
attributed to its
first Grand
Master
We are doomed, but we walk in darkness,

We are forgotten, yet the future is our gift to
humanity.
Story) by John
French
H
Source
Haegr
of the Space
Wolves
Quote
-It's funny. That time when you saved old Adrian
from those fanatics I thought I heard him offer you
your heart's desire. He would have sent you home if
you asked. Instead you asked for a meat pie.
-...It was a big pie.
-with Torin the Wayfarer
Chaplain
Hanius of the
Blood Angels
Within dark and forgotten places hide the enemies

of the Emperor. You have been chosen to enter such
places and, protected by the best armour the
Adeptus Mechanicus can provide, cleanse it. Take
with you weapons, a valiant heart and the
Emperor's blessing, and engage the enemy where it
makes its lair. Acknowledge death as it approaches,
but do not succumb to its touch, for your purpose is
great. You have proved yourselves to be worthy of
the status you now hold. Every one of you standing
here, all of whom have declared allegiance to the
Emperor and take his will as your guide, have
shown your courage and have been rewarded for it.
Those that stand before me, I charge you now, go
forth and vanquish the foe.
Sermon to Terminator Squads before the attack on
Thain II
Colonel
Hassar,
Cadian 7th
Fenrisians are taught to value comradeship and

loyalty to their tribes from birth. Within the Space
Wolves, their loyalty is given to their Wolf Lord and
the Company of his followers. As warriorbarbarians they set great store by personal bravery
and great deeds, having little but contempt for
authority that is bestowed rather than earned
through the proven virtues of combat.
High Marshal
The galaxy is the Emperor's, and anyone or
Notes
Wolfblade (Novel)
by William King,
Chapter Six
[Needs Citation]
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 33
[Needs Citation]
114
anything who challenges that claim is an enemy

who must be destroyed.
at the Battle of Fire and Blood
Helbrecht of
the Black
Templars
The Emperor extends His will to us when we

destroy the wicked and impure to reconquer the
galaxy in His name. The Emperor leads the galaxy
to righteousness, and thus we must petition for His
judgement on the wicked... for it is judgement
without mercy.
addressing his warriors prior to the Cleansing of
Gemenon Majoris
[Needs Citation]
The Space Wolves have already proven their ability

to stave off the most determined attacks on their
realm, so overt action is out of the question.
However, I believe that it is imperative that they are
closely monitored for signs of abomination.
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 30
Of all the Primarchs, the end of Leman Russ is the

most mysterious, for he is accounted to have
vanished ten thousand years ago. One of the most
fundamental of the Space Wolves' tenets is the
belief that their Primarch will eventually return for
the final battle at the end of the universe.
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 9
Ancient
Helveticus,
Ultramarines
Honour Guard
A foe without honour is a foe already beaten.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 53
Ulfric
Hoodclaw of
the Space
Wolves
Guard your tongue, whelp, lest I cut it out. I care

not for your moon-touched ramblings, nor for the
tales of your grandmother. Mark this well - of the
13th Company we do not speak.
Balthazar
von Heppel,
Ministorum
Adept
Hyperion of
the Grey
Knights
The Wolves aren't animals. No beast is bound by

honour, nor does it sacrifice itself for others outside
its pack.
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 17
The Emperor's Gift

(Novel)
by Aaron DembskiBowden,
Chapter TwentyFour, pg. 284
115
I
Speaker
Quote
Source
War Cry of the

Imperial Fists
Primarch! Progenitor, to your glory and

the glory of Him on Earth!
Sergeant Daegon
Incursa,
Invaders 1st
Company
The deeds of one bold warrior can alter

the course of a battle. I have four such
men under my command and our every
deed changes the shape of the galaxy.
Codex: Space Marines

Saul Invictus,
First Captain of
the Ultramarines
Praise the sun that brings the dawn of

our final doom.
-from The Lament of the First, purported
last words
The Chapter's Due

(Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Chapter TwentyThree
Credo of the Iron

Hands
So it was in the beginning; so ever it shall

be.
[Needs Citation]
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 129
Only the spirit is pure.

The mind may be swayed, the body may
fail.
Only the soul cradles vengeance purely.
Become the weapon of the soul.
Principle Lessons
of the Iron Hands
Where the mind hesitates, overcome it.

Where the body fails, replace it.
Aspire to the condition of the Primarch.
Emulate his union with steel.
Wrath of Iron (Novel) by

Chris Wraight, Chapter 12
Never waver.
Never retreat.
Never doubt.
The flesh is weak.
The weak shall be purged.
What remains is strength.
116
J
Source
Quote
Commander Mad Chainsaw

Johnson of the White Scars
Problems? Problems? There is no

problem I cannot solve with this...
attributed
Notes/Cont
ext
[Needs
Citation]
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Pedro Kantor,
Chapter Master of
the Crimson Fists
We have been wounded sorely. Yet still we stand,

with fire in our eyes and valour in our hearts.
Let them think us beaten. We shall teach them
otherwise.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 29
Commander Karziel,
Ultramarines 5th
Company
A battle for supremacy against many foes is a

battle of the best kind. There are few
considerations, only those concerning where to
place your next shot. It is war in its purest form.
Euphrati Keeler,
Remembrancer
-Why do you weep? Is it for us?

-For him, Nathaniel, because he can't. Today
you and I have broken a brother's heart, and
nothing will ever mend it.
-after showing proof of Horus's treachery on
Isstvan III to Rogal Dorn
Techmarine Keilor
assigned to the
Deathwatch from the
Doom Eagles
Chapter
This planet is a graveyard - care to join me?

shortly before blowing himself up amidst a
genestealer cult on Pavia
[Needs Citation]
Only faith in the Emperor and the training I am

going to give you will save you on the battlefield.
[Needs Citation]
Why, if it isnt Brother Marius. The injuries

from the last training exercise have healed well
I see. And that new bionic eye should prove most
useful for this next exercise. Tell me, how many
hours have you had on Land Speeders up to
now?
[Needs Citation]
Veteran Sergeant
Kesser
[Needs Citation]
The Flight of
the Eisenstein
(Novel)
by James
Swallow
Chapter
Fourteen, pg.
341
117
Already, you exalt me for my triumphs,

When I ask only that you remember me for my
treacheries
Khyron, First Grand
Master of the Eighth
Brotherhood
Victory is nothing more than survival.

It carries no weight of honour or worth beyond
what we ascribe to it.
The Emperor's
Gift (Novel) Ch.
Twelve p. 153
If you wish to grow wise, learn why brothers

betray brothers.
Captain Kor'sarro
Khan,
White Scars 3rd
Company, Master of
the Hunt
Surround yourself with the greatest warriors at

your command, or cower in the deepest and
darkest hole you can find. It matters not. I shall
take your head for the Great Khan and for the
Emperor.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 94
Major Goff
Kurtane,
9th Radial Sarpoy
Regiment
I, for one, was bloody glad to see the Snakes

power in. Beautiful bastards, they are. I owe
them my life and my soul.
after the battle of Ambold Eleven
The Sabbat
Worlds Crusade
(Background
Book)
by Dan Abnett,
pg. 24
Guardsman Kyod
All was lost. The Xenos scum, who smashed us

for two days straight, were hurtling towards us
again. We readied ourselves for death. And then
Death came. Ten Space Marines appeared in the
midst of the alien swarm. They were all in black
and they set about the foe with the very fury of
the Emperor himself! They saved us, and the
whole damned Imperial line.
after the recapturing of Heliad VII
[Needs Citation]
L
Speaker
Quote
Legion of the
Damned
The Damned and the World read the first

The Master of Mankind has work for us
here.
Source
[Needs Citation]
The Castle and Chaos read the second
118
Our Lord guides us against evil.

Fire and the Executioner read the third
We have our duty.
Death and the Emperor read the last
The Legion of the Damned shall accomplish
the Imperial will.
- consulting the Tarot of the Emperor
Captain Leitz of
the Exorcists
'We shall never rest while a single renegade

draws breath. Let them fear our names.'

Captain Garviel
Loken of the Luna
Wolves
Brother... kinsman... every time the death

comes closer, but still I am rejected. Do you
know why? Will you not tell me? Death took
you! Why not me? WHY NOT ME?!
-on Isstvan III
Garro: Legion of One

(Audio Book) by
James Swallow, Track:
Cerberus Alone
Sword Brethren
Lorenzo
This day shall be our day of reckoning.

Look not to the shame of the past, but to the
glory of the future. We shall wash away the
stain of our dishonour in the hot blood of
our enemies.
address to the warriors of the Varl Crusade
[Needs Citation]
I have travelled far and seen much. Yet

nothing warms my heart so much as the
sight of a gun so massive that its fury makes
the very world tremble.
- attributed

My kind were created to feel no fear, but we

understand it. We were all once men who
felt fear as does anyone else, and we must
know it because it is a weapon we wield.
Malodrax (Novel)
by Ben Counter,
Chapter Ten, pg. 229
That's why you summoned us here. To know

where we came from is to know where we
are and where we are going.
You do not say much, Pasanius Lysane, but
when you speak, it is worthwhile to listen.
I'm a sergeant, my lord. It's what I do.
-to Chief Librarian Varro Tigurius
Courage and Honour

(Novel)
by Graham McNeill,
Chapter Three
Captain Darnath
Lysander,
Imperial Fists 1st
Company
Sergeant Pasanius
Lysane,
Ultramarines 4th
Company
119
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lord Solar Macharius
If they are so eager to die, and they will not

heed the advice of their superiors, then let them
rush headlong into the jaws of the lion. We can
only hope some of them get caught in its throat.
-on the Space Wolves
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 32
Captain Malachai of
the Black Templars
Questions are for the briefing room, not the

field.
[Needs Citation]
SPEED KILLS!
[Needs Citation]
It's not just a speeding bike you need, Gamaliel

- a quick mind is just as important for victory.
[Needs Citation]
But without a purpose, an Astartes is nothing. A

warrior without a war is no warrior at all.
-to Battle-Captain Garro
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book) by James
Swallow, Track
5: Flashback
Sergeant Malachi,
Ravenwing
Malcador the Sigillite
Ferrus Manus,
Primarch of the Iron
Hands
They are not my hands.

This fact is forgotten by my brothers inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The
hands are strong, to be sure, and have created
great things for us all, but they are not mine.
And that counts for something.They forget that
the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I
vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I
ended, and yet it persists within me... I would
struggle to remove it now... I will not remove the
silver from my flesh because I have learned to
depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely
on the augmentation given to me by my metal
gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath
them is now little more than a distant memory...
Wrath of Iron
(Novel)
by Chris
Wraight,
Preface, pgs. 78
A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest

I lose the power to master myself forever.
Already my Legion's warriors replace their
shield hands with metal in my honour, and so
they too are learning to doubt the natural
strength of their bodies. They must be weaned
120
off this practice before it becomes a mania for

them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is
human, is the first and greatest of the
corruptions. So I record it here: when the time
comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural
silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their
distrust of the flesh. I will turn then away from
the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn
the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my
father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred
task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my
Legion and myself. For if fighting is all there is,
if we may never pause to reflect on what such
devotion to strength is doing to us, then our
compulsion will only grow. Already I see the
madness that path leads to, and so I shall excise
the silver from my hands. In doing so I shall
weaken myself and my sons, but nonetheless it
must be done. The hands are strong, and have
created great things, but they are not mine.
- The Neimerel Scrolls, attributed
Surgeon-Commander
Grigor Markhava
Make war and move on, and again, and again,

until nothing breathes which stands against us.
All else is sophistry and pretty lies.
- On his Legion's role in the Great Crusade
The Horus
Heresy Book
Two Massacre, p. 68
The duty of the Medic, my Brethren, is a sacred

one. We embody the Emperor's divine will and
his holy purpose. We bring death and we bring
life. Let those true to Humanity's cause give
thanks for our work. Let the impure bow down
before our swords!
attributed to Markhava, distributed as an
exemplary text after he died during the storming
of the Bourne slave pits (2150982 M41)
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 28
Pain and death are illusions of the weak mind.

While his gene-seed returns to the Chapter, a
Marine cannot die. Without death, pain loses its
relevance.
Master of the
Apothecarion Aslon
Marr
He that may fight, heal him

He that may fight no more, give him peace
He that is dead, take from him the Chapter's
due.
attributed
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 29
121
Mephiston, Chief
Librarian of the Blood
Angels
Mentor Legion
I once was Calistarius. He has been dead for

many years. I stand in his place, with death in
my right hand, darkness in my left, and I would
know who this is who bears the name
Mephiston.
Knowledge is Power
Mephiston:
Lord of Death
(Novella)
by David
Annandale,
[Needs Citation]
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium[N
eeds Citation]
Chaplain Mikelus of
the Blood Ravens
Faith is purest when it is unquestioning.
Dawn of War
Pain now! Reward in the afterlife.
Dawn of War
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Captain
Navarre of
the Black
Templars
Your honour is your life. Let none dispute it.
Chaplain
Fergas Nils
As our bodies are armoured with Adamantium, our souls

are protected with our loyalty. As our bolters are charged
with death for the Emperor's enemies, our thoughts are
charged with his wisdom. As our ranks advance, so does
our devotion, for are we not Marines? Are we not the
chosen of the Emperor, his loyal servants unto death?
an address to the defenders of Portrein
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
pg. 21 /
Warhammer
40,000 5th
Edition
Rulebook, pg. 20
Inquisitor
N'Syun
Some say that the Blood Angels are tainted: that they
harbour a dark secret. I know this to be true. I have seen
the infamous Death Company: wild-eyed and foammouthed berserkers who tear their enemies limb from
limb, crush skulls with a single blow, snap spines and rip
out inner organs. I have seen the Sanguinary Priests: the
passing of blood filled chalices from lip to lip, heard their
wracking lamentations of Sanguinus's death. I have
watched their rituals: mighty warriors daubing their
armour in the blood of their foes, heard them crying for
vengeance against the enemies of the Emperor.
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
122
O
Speaker
Quote
Source
Mersadie Oliton,
Remembrancer
If you know no fear, do you also not know

awe? Surprise? Majesty? Have you not seen
things so bizarre they left you speechless?
Shocked you? Unnerved you even?
- to Garviel Loken
Horus Rising (Novel)

by Dan Abnett, Part
Two, Chapter Nine,
p. 172
P
Speaker
Priad
of the Iron Snakes
Brother Proteus,
Ultramarines 2nd
Company
Apothecary Pythol,
Ultramarines 2nd
Company
Quote
Source
One warrior usually suffices.

- to Perdet Suiton Antoni, on Baal Solock.
Brothers of the
Snake (Novel) by
Dan Abnett, Part
One-XII
'Mingle'? What in the Emperor's name does

that mean?
- after he and Damocles Squad are invited to
enjoy themselves at a diplomatic reception on
Iorgu.
Brothers of the
Snake (Novel) by
Dan Abnett, Part
Six-II, p. 171
Everything has a purpose. The Emperor

ordains it so. You may corrupt the souls of
men. But I am steel! I am doom! I march for
Macragge, and I know no fear!
Ultramarines - A
Warhammer 40,000
Movie
Oh, Proteus. You novices are all alike. And

I'm the one who has to put you back together.
It isn't combat I resent, Brother. It's the thirst
for glory that gets men cut to ribbons.
Death will find you soon enough. War is not
about glory. War is about victory!
May the Emperor bless and protect this
sacred geneseed, so that the strength of these
brave warriors may live on in Ultramarines
yet unborn, by the abiding honour of our
fortress on Macragge, in the name of the
Chapter and the Primarch, to whom we owe
all.
-while applying his Reductor to fallen Marines
123
Brother Proteus and

Apothecary Pythol,
Ultramarines 2nd
Company
-The Emperor protects.

-And having a loaded bolter never hurt,
either.
Q
Speaker
Quote
Source
Captain Iacton Qruze

of the Luna Wolves
I'll not be known as a Son of

Horus again, mark that well,
lad.
-to Nathaniel Garro
The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)

by James Swallow, Chapter Nine, p.
229
R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Sergeant
Rafen of the
Blood Angels
This place was built to destroy something precious to us,

something each of us shares, no matter which Primarch
or Chapter we call our own. I speak of brotherhood.
Bile has isolated us, severed all but the most cursory of
contacts. He sows distrust and suspicion, wears you
down with the slow grind of mindless days and
tormented nights. The bastard wants you to believe you
are forgotten. He lies. I am here to tell you that he lies
and lies! Look within yourselves, brothers, and you will
understand. You have been waiting for this day, even if
you did not know it. This day, when you are reminded of
who you are. My purpose here is the same as yours, to
serve the God-Emperor and Holy Terra! Know that
each of you is the harbinger of your own freedom! I say
to you all that this day, we are not Blood Angels, Doom
Eagles, Space Wolves, Taurans, Salamanders, Crimson
Fists... We are one great legion, one heart and one
mind! We are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines,
the war gods and terrible swift sword of our Emperor!
We are His will, and we have always been so!
Black Tide
(Novel)
by James
Swallow,
, Chapter
Twelve
Rhetoricus of
the Imperial
Fists
The Emperor commands us. Dorn guides us. Honour

shields us.
Fear our name, for it is vengeance.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 27
Arjac
Rockfist of
the Space
Wolves
As the mountain is Arjac

A snow-capped peak
His rage overshadows the wounded bear.
The Rockfist endures when all seems lost.
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 64
124
- from "The Saga of Arjac Rockfist"

-No, NO! You would have me leave the side of my sworn
battle-brothers in their darkest hour? I refuse!
-It is The Sigillite's command. His word is the Emperor's
word.
Tylos Rubio,
Ultramarines
21st Company
Primarch
Leman Russ
of the Space
Wolves
-...The Sigillite's command be damned. You give me no

recourse, Garro. And so, on my honour as a son of
Macragge, I choose to defy it. Even if it means I will
perish here, even if you colour me a rebel like Lorgar's
turncoats, I defy it!
-Rubio and Nathaniel Garro, during the Battle of Calth
Garro: Oath of
Moment (Audio
Book)
by James
Swallow, Track
11: Vantage
Point
Listen closely Brothers, for my life's breath is all but

spent. There shall come a time far from now when our
chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying. Then my
children, I shall list'n for your call from whatever
realms of death hold me, and come I shall no-matter
what laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be
there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime.
before his final departure into the Eye of Terror
Book of the
Astronomican,
p. 8
Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are

courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops
they are present in varying degrees and proportions,
and many scholars have debated their relative merits.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 45
For my own part, I come down on the side of courage.

For courage can sometimes make a virtue of
inexperience. I myself have commanded Imperial
Guard troops whose probitor units have achieved great
things, because they were too inexperienced to realise
that their goal was impossible.
De Natura Belli, Book XIV
You strive for victory. That is obvious. What may be less

obvious is the nature of victory. There are
circumstances in which you can destroy the enemy
utterly, without loss to your own forces, and yet the
victory may be his. In all situations, you must first
decide on the nature of victory, and then take steps to
secure it. Avoid the instinct of fight first and think later.
attributed, Meditations, Book VI
Adeptus
Titanicus
Rulebook, p. 40
125
A fortress circumvented ceases to be an obstacle. A

fortress destroyed ceases to be a threat. Do not forget
the difference.
attributed
Warhammer
Siege, p. 108
A fortress is built with blood and toil. Only by blood and

toil may it be taken.
attributed
Warhammer
Siege, p. 106
Beat your thoughts to the mould of your will.

attributed
[Needs Citation]
There are those who undervalue the Penal Battalions.

But they should consider this: should a man who has
wronged the Emperor be allowed to wrong Him
further? For each man executed is a man who can no
longer serve, and to fail in service to the Emperor is the
greatest of sins
Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XXI
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 148
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for

millennia cut off from the Imperium and assailed from
all sides. Their determination and resilience is an
example to all.
Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XVI
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 167
Harden your soul against decadence. But do not despise

it, for the soft appearance of the decadent may be
deceptive. One need only consider the Harlequin
dancers of the Eldar to see the truth of this proposition.
A Book of Admonitions for the Legiones Astartes
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 194
Here I am and here shall I die.

attributed to Russ at the Battle of Rising Fell
[Needs Citation]
Arm the bastards and they might win a few bloody

worlds for us in between verses.
attributed, grousing about the Remembrancers sent to
the front lines during the Great Crusade
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part One,
Chapter 3, p. 46
No man nor beast could best the Wolf-King,

No tribe could stand against his armies.
Within Russ' kingdom a truce
Existed between man and wolf,
His court was attended by the fiercest of
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 8
126
Warlords and the most beautiful of maidens.

from "The Saga of the Wolf-King"
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Battle-cry of the
Salamanders
Into the fires of battle!

Unto the anvil of war!
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 26
Sanguinius,
Primarch of the
Blood Angels
Legion
-Hear me, creature. Let Meros hear this. Your

gambit has failed. Whatever these powers are that
you call master, whatever irrational choice my
brother Horus has made to seek a pact with them,
you stand defeated upon the cusp of victory. Do
you understand the reason why?
-This one. An exemplar of your kind. You were
underestimated. The Thirst would have taken you--But it did not. Because as long as one single
Blood Angel lives, he will be master of his spirit.
He will not let the abyss that lies in the hearts of
us all take him into darkness. That is the truth
you do not understand, the truth that Horus has
forgotten. It is not the descent toward the shadow
nor the rise toward the light that makes us
superior. It is the endless struggle between the two
that greatness of character lies. We are tested, and
we do not break. We will never fall! Take that to
my brother and tell him!
Fear to Tread
(Novel) by James
Swallow, Chapter
19, pg. 482
-To the Red Angel on resisting the Red Thirst
I made a vow, Kano. I will see it to its bloody end.

There may come a day, and sooner than we might
wish, when you...when my sons will have to go on
without me.
-To Mkani Kano on his dreams
Three Legions of Marines stand to defend you,

sire. All of us will unflinchingly place ourselves
between you and the wars desolation. We are the
greatest humans ever born we are the flame of
Humanity where the rest of the galaxy is just the
Fear to Tread
(Novel) by James
Swallow, Chapter
20, pg. 500
[Needs Citation]
127
spark. In centuries of warfare, against the

vileness of the alien, the lies of the heretic, the
foulness of the mutant, I have never known fear
but your silence terrifies me.
- during the Battle for Terra
Gabriel Seth,
Chapter Master of
the Flesh Tearers
Kayvaan Shrike,
Shadow Captain
of the Raven
Guard 3rd
Company
We are disorder, that is true. But that is what we

were made to be. The wild and the random. If
each Successor embodies the traits of The Great
Angel, then that is what the Flesh Tearers are,
just as the Blood Swords are his martial prowess,
the Sanguine his secrecy, the Flesh Eaters his
carnivore's fangs! But the Blood Angels are the
melding of all of those things, and that is why I
will always envy you, cousin.
Red Fury (Novel)

by James
Swallow,
Chapter Thirteen
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be

my battle-brother eternal.
-from the initiation rites for Neophyte Flesh
Tearers
Red Fury (Novel)

by James
Swallow,
Epilogue
From the darkness we strike, fast and lethal, and

by the time our foes can react... darkness there
and nothing more.
In the darkness all men are equal, save those that
embrace it.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 25
We are coming. Look to the skies for your

salvation.
- to Commissar Lent prior to the Blindhope
planetstrike
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 69
Wherever you tread, tread lightly. We are closer

than you think, and our blades are sharp.
Cato Sicarius,
Captain of the
Ultramarines 2nd
Company
[Needs Citation]
We are the slayers of kings, the destroyers of

worlds, bringers of ruination and death in all its
forms. These things we do in the name of the
Emperor and in the defense of Mankind. Let
none stay our wrath.
Brothers! War calls you. Will you answer?
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 92
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 19
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
128
Edition), p. 85
Sigismund,
First Captain of
the Imperial Fists
Legion and first
High Marshal of
the Black
Templars
Slay the beast and the horde will die.
The Chapter's
Due (Novel) by
Graham McNeill,
Ch. 7, p. 91
The more we spread the more we find. World after

world. New worlds to conquer. Space is limitless,
and so is our appetite to master it.
-during the Great Crusade
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part One, Chapter
6, p. 131
We will spend our lives fighting to secure this

Imperium, and then I fear we will spend the rest
of our days fighting to keep it intact. There is
such involving darkness amongst the stars. Even
when the Imperium is complete, there will be no
peace. We will be obliged to fight on to preserve
what we have fought to establish. Peace is a vain
wish. Our crusade may one day adopt another
name, but it will never truly end. In the far future,
there will be only war.
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part One, Chapter
6, p. 132
-Do you really think you'd have a hope? Honestly?

Your yellow ragamuffins against the best of the
best?
-Whatever helps you sleep, Tarik. Terra bless us
all it is a paradigm that will never be tested.
Silver Skulls
While vile mutants still draw breath, there can be

no peace. While obscene heretics' hearts still beat,
there can be no respite. While faithless traitors
still live, there can be no forgiveness.
Catechism of Hate Verse I of XXV
Battle Litany of
the Space Wolves
We are the wolf that stalks

The stars in the sky
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part One, Chapter
6, p. 133
[Needs Citation]
Book of the
Astronomican, p.
22
And swallows the star-fire

We hide amongst the night
129
When light is gone

The Light is within us
We run the ruin of Fire
In the darkness
Foes burn in our passing
Kardan Stronos,
Chapter Master of
the Iron Hands
I believe in three tenets of battle - firepower,

firepower, and more firepower. Should the
Omnissiah have wished otherwise, he would not
have provided me with such a mighty tool as the
Razorback. I long for the day in which my entire
Chapter can ride to war in transports such as
these, vehicles whose rage can be given voice
through their sanctified armament.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 77
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Sergeant Torias
Telion,
Ultramarines
10th Company
Forget all your preconceptions of war, of battlelines clashing in the churned ground. Your mission
is to attack before the foe even realises that the war
has begun, to strike hard at those vital weaknesses
that all armies possess, but that no commander will
admit to. Under my tutelage you will learn how to
seek out such fragilities and smite them with every
weapon at your disposal. Master these duties and I
will have nothing more to teach, and you will truly
be a Space Marine.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 75
If he wasn't my brother, he'd be a political

embarrassment and an impediment to the effective
rule of the Imperium. I know what I'd do with him.
I'm sure I could demonstrate how, lord.
Was that a joke, sergeant?
I may have just made a very unfortunate attempt at
humour, lord.
It was actually quite funny.
- Roboute Guilliman and Thiel, shortly before the
Battle of Calth
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Acquisitio
n, Chapter Eight,
pg. 95
-Aeonid Thiel. 135th Company.

Marked for censure?
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Sergeant
Aeonid Thiel,
Ultramarines
13th Chapter,
135th Company
130
Librarian
Secundus Thryn
of the Doom
Eagles
-Today started in a different place, Sir.

-Thiel and Marius Gage, during the Battle of Calth
Abnett,
Target//Engageme
nt, Chapter Four,
pg. 244
-Their advantage is shock and surprise. Our

counter-advantage must be a lack of convention.
-Expand.
-They know what we are, for they are us. They
know the attributes of our armour and our
weapons. They also know our tactics and formulae
of war, for our beloved primarch has made his
codifications available to all his brothers. We never
thought we would need to conceal our combat
methods from our own kind. Today, we have been
disabused of that notion. So we must fight them in
ways that they do not expect from us. We must use
the unconventional, the improvised and the
makeshift. In order to properly honour the combat
teachings of Roboute Guilliman, we must cast his
rules aside for the day.
- Thiel and Marius Gage, during the Battle of Calth
Know No Fear
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Target//Engageme
nt, Chapter Four,
pgs. 246-247
All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in

accepting our own mortality can we make a
difference. Only in bearing the burden of our
failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in
detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy...
from life itself can we hope to spare others from
grief.
On Mournful
Wings (Short
Story) by Simon
Spurrier
We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already.
Varro Tigurius,
Chief Librarian
of the
Ultramarines
Each path must be chosen with care,

Lest disaster swallow us whole.
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 86
Never before or since have I seen fighting such as I

witnessed when that host fell upon the Orks.
Seizing the moment, I regrouped my Company and
led them once more into the fray, yet there was little
work for us, for the greenskins lacked stomach for
the fight. Soon we secured the great bastion once
more and without further loss. Of the dark
brotherhood there was no sign.
- on the Legion of the Damned
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 95
131
It cannot be considered a gift, to peer into the Warp

and unravel the possibilities of the future that are,
that might be, and that must be prevented. Nor can
the burden of a weapon, that each of my brothers
looks upon with girded revulsion, be called a gift.
No, Master, I do not think my psychic prowess a
gift... but a tool. Whether by a quirk of fate, or the
will of the Emperor, I possess a weapon the like of
which can turn the tide, not just in a battle but in
the course of history. To withhold it, to flinch from
its use or deny it would not just be counterproductive, it would be heresy. But if it is a gift, it is
a cruel one.
- from the journal of Marneus Calgar, quoting
Tigurius, 991.M41
Warlords of the
Dark Millennium:
Tigurius
(Background
Book),
pg. 3
The answer, always, is the Wolves of Fenris,

because they are clinically insane.
-during a friendly debate with Imperial Fists
Captain Sigismund, about which Space Marine
Legion is toughest
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part One, Chapter
6, p. 132
-You are a base-born cur!

-Just so you know, you'll have to do an awful lot
better than that. I'm a base-born cur, and proud of
it.
-to Lord Commander Eidolon of the Emperor's
Children
Horus Rising
(Novel) by Dan
Abnett,
Part Two, Chapter
6, pg. 297
Captain Nico
Trevellias of
the White
Consuls
They believe they are too good for the Codex

Astartes, these... these wolf-men? Too good for ten
millennia of tested and refined battle wisdom?
Then let them fight as savages, I say. Let them fight
and die.
-on the Space Wolves
Codex: Space
Wolves (5th
Edition), p. 16
Marine Psyker
Troos
Arm yourselves, fools, the enemy are within us!

last statement
Tu'shan,
Chapter Master
of the
Salamanders
My sword is at the Emperor's command. I answer

to no other man, living or dead.
Captain Tarik
Torgaddon,
Luna Wolves
2nd Company
Book of the
Astronomican, p.
66
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 52
132
U
Speaker
Quote
Inscription on the
Ultramarines Chapter
Banner
Our presence remakes the past
Source
[Needs Citation]
"We march for Macragge!"

Ultramarines Battlechant
"And we shall know no fear!"
Ultramarines - A
Warhammer 40,000 Movie
"From Ancient Terra the Emperor

commands His Proud Sons."
"From revered Blood-stock these
Warriors are made His Proud sons"
"No fear they shall know as Adeptus
Astartes, His Proud Sons"
"Humanity's foes they defend against
all, His Proud Sons"
Ultramarines: "His
Proud Sons"
"Warrior Elite, Unbreakable spirit,

Astartes"
Ultramarines - A
Warhammer 40,000 Movie
- (1:10:34) End Credits
Song
"Supreme Defenders, Unchallenged

in Battle Astartes"
"Warrior Elite, Unbreakable spirit,
Astartes"
"Courage and honour, Emperor and
Primarch, Astartes!"
Popular Ultramarines
Aphorism
To take a town, send a legionary. To

take a city, send a squad. To take a
world, send a company. To take a
culture, send a Chapter.
Know No Fear (Novel) by

Dan Abnett,
Target//Acquisition,
Chapter 3, p. 40
133
V
Speaker
Quote
Chaplain Varnus
of the
Ultramarines
Come all you Xeno scum and fallen heretics!

Come face the one true might of the universe
and wither under the Golden Throne's gaze!
Source
Dawn of War:
Winter Assault
Hell? There is no such thing, Garro! It's a

figment of old idolatry, nothing more. We have
no need for a place of horrors beyond death.
Horus makes it for us, here, in the real!
-on Isstvan III
Garro: Legion of
One (Audio Book)
by James Swallow,
Track 4: The
Battlefield
Garro, heed me. We have lost so many of our

brethren to this schism, this damned bloody war!
A traitor I will kill without hesitation, but we do
not speak of a traitor! Our kinsman is lost.
Garro: Legion of
One (Audio Book)
by James Swallow,
Track 7: Aftermath
I was not cut out to lead like this, Garro. I am a

killer, a meat cutter, not a brood mare struggling
to protect a brood of weak and feeble runts! I
lead warriors, not common folk!
Garro: Sword of
Truth (Audio Book)
by James Swallow,
Disc 2, Track 2: The
Daggerline
Chief Librarian
Vel'cona of the
Salamanders
I can pulp your flesh and snap your bones in less

than a second, and without so much as lifting a
finger. What is the power of technology
compared to that?
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 56
Ultramarines
Veteran Sergeant
Lucian Ventris
We commend our souls to the Emperor. Let the

story of our sacrifice burn across history like a
shooting star. For death and for glory - for the
Ultramarines!
- At the Battle for Macragge, 745.M41
[Needs Citation]
-But if you fail, Pavonis will die. By my hand or

that of de Valtos.
-We will not fail. We are the Ultramarines.
-to Inquisitor Ario Barzano
Nightbringer
(Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Chapter 16
I have seen my share of death, both honourable

and despicable, and yes, I know that war is a
brutal, bloody business capable of bringing out
the best and the worst in men. This is a harsh,
The Killing Ground

(Novel)
by Graham McNeill,
Chapter Eighteen,
Macer Varren,
Loyalist Captain
of the World
Eaters
Ultramarines
Captain Uriel
Ventris
134
dangerous galaxy, with untold terrors lurking in

the dark to devour us, but the minute we turn on
our own kind and murder them, we might as well
take a blade to our throats.
pg. 277
Without the Codex Astartes, the Imperium

wouldn't have survived the aftermath of the
Great Heresy. It binds every one of the thousand
Chapters of Space Marines together, and gives
us a common cause, a connection to the past and
to one another. Every Chapter, whether they
acknowledge it or not, owes its very existence to
the Codex Astartes.
Courage and Honour

(Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Chapter 3,
p.
And you are wrong.

About what?
About the life of a single individual being
irrelevant. Every life is vital, no matter how
seemingly insignificant. If we forget that, we are
no better than the scum out there.
-to Inquisitor Namira Suzaku
The Chapter's Due

(Novel) by Graham
McNeill, Chapter
11, p. 217
W
Speaker
Quote
Source
Walls of stone and walls of iron,

Fall down all the same.
They may delay but don't prevent
White Scars
Warhammer
Siege, p. 93
The hail of death and pain.

- Assault battle-hymn
If you can see us, we are dangerous indeed. But that is

nothing to the peril you face if you cannot see us, and all
you can hear is our laughter.
- Proverb
Codex: Space
Marines (5th
Edition), p. 28
135
Thar Ariak
Hraldir,
"Wyrmblade,
"
Wolf Priest of
the Space
Wolves
It was the Allfather who created Leman Russ, the

primogenitor of the Vlka Fenryka, and the Allfather who
fashioned the Legion that served under his name. For
every Legion he created, there was a purpose. Some were
blessed with the power to build, or the skill to administer,
or the capacity for stealth. Our gift was different. We were
made to destroy. Our whole being is destruction. Such
was the will of the Allfather. He made us not to construct
empires, but to murder them. We were bred to perform the
tasks that no other Legion could, to fight with such
extravagance that even our brother warriors would
shrink from treachery in the knowledge of what we, the
Rout, would do to them.
Battle of the
Fang (Novel)
by Chris
Wraight,
Chapter
Nineteen, pgs.
418-419
Unattributed 3
Quote
Say what you will: I will not fight alongside these
madmen. The past proves nothing, save that the
Blood Angels are cursed and but a single step
from damnation!
Notes/Context
An anonymous
Imperial
Commander
Wherever and whenever they appear they leave

only destruction in their wake; they are the Lords
of Death, Bringers of War. The Dark Angels.
Source
[Needs Citation]
[Needs Citation]
A fortress won't stop the Marines. But it may

slow them down.
Proverb
Warhammer Siege,
p. 96
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be

armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of
obedience which overcomes all obstacles, and
armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty
and Purity.
Anonymous
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 85
Space Marine
Proverb
[Needs Citation]
Honour your Chapter.

By thy colour will he know thee,
By thy banners will he fear thee,
Unknown
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p.
137
By thy standard will he dread thee,
136
Cry Marine, and let slip the weapons of war.
The enemies of the Emperor fear many things.

They fear discovery, defeat, despair and death.
Yet there is one thing they fear above all others.
Unknown
[Needs Citation]
Unknown
[Needs Citation]
They fear the wrath of the Space Marines!
They'll never get in. Even a chain fist wouldn't

break down that barricade."
(A pale blue glow appeared in the corner)
You'd think they'd try though. I mean, they're not
even trying to get in.
(The glowing blue mist rapidly coalesced. The
crunch of metal echoed from behind them)
What was that?
(The dark shape, now solid, raised an assault
cannon and tore the two men apart in one fluid
motion. A communicator cut through the static.)
Teleportation complete. Targets terminated.
Awaiting further instructions.
137
Squat
Speaker
Quote
Source
We have always been a race of traders. It is natural to us

that we should trade the fighting skills of our
Lord Grumni,
Brotherhoods. As well as bringing us a profit, it also
Bruggen
allows our youngsters to gain experience and honour, and
Stronghold
to keep alive the skills which our strongholds may one
day need for their own defence.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium, p.
172
H
Speaker
Morgin Harad,
Adeptus
Mechanicus
Quote
Source
The Squats have advanced our cause considerably

Warhammer 40,000
over the millennia. On no other group of worlds
Compendium, p.
has so much Dark Age technology survived, nor so
165
much expertise been preserved.
Warlord Hargir son You people do well at war because you treat it as a Warhammer 40,000
of Brond, Gruben
religion. We do well because we treat it as a
Compendium, p.
Stronghold
business. It is just a matter of outlook.
171
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Warlord Kettri son

of Egil, Grindel
Stronghold
On one side of me stand my Homeworld,

Stronghold and Brotherhood; On the other, my
ancestors. I cannot behave otherwise than
honourably.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 164
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
An Engineer travels light because it's easier. Instead

Engineer Sindri,
of lugging several thousand tools around with you, Warhammer 40,000
Massunich Lodge, get where you're going, look at the job, decide what
Compendium, p.
Engineers Guild tools you need, and make them on the spot. Far more
177
practical.
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Warlord Thargrim "the

red", Traitor Squat
commander
Do not think we bear you any ill-will. You

were simply in the right place at the right
time - or the wrong time from your point of
view.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 178
138
Unattributed 4
Quote
Source
The Tech-adept rewound the tendrils into the stump of his wrist.
-The nature of this device is not clear to me. The short figure at his side
bustled up to the console
-Well, shift your spanners and let's have a look at the thing. The Techadept sidled uncomfortably away, and the Squat peered into the casing.
-Now, then. Hydroplastic power transmission, controls attached to a
timer and what looks like an encoder, a pressure chamber at the centre, Warhammer 40,000
surrounded by... The Tech-adept, who was looking over the Squat's
Compendium, p.
shoulder by this time, shot a manipulative tendril into the machine, seizing a
169
frayed and broken end of a cable.
-If we remake this join... he began, enthusiastically. The Squat laid a
restraining hand on his arm.
-I really wouldn't recommend it. You see, I interpret this device as an
unusually complex plasma bomb, and that cable you're holding goes
direct to the arming mechanism.
The young Warlord turned to the ancient Squat beside him.
Revered Ancestor, what is our best course in this situation?
The Living Ancestor half-closed his rheumy eyes.
- I have seen this but once before. Six hundred years before your birth,
your revered ancestor Lord Thyngrim, whose name you bear in your
turn, was on the world of Dioscis Theta. I was younger then,
undistinguished amongst the mass of the Brotherhood.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p.
170
And how did Lord Thyngrim win the day? asked the Warlord with some
impatience. The Orks were getting closer. The Ancestor shook as he
chuckled.
- I cannot tell you how to win as he did, but if you don't mind
uncomfortable truths, I can tell you how to avoid losing as he did.
So Grunhag led his host to Wyss, encamped upon the plain of Swend.
Proud Hargan and rich Erlach fell, destroyed and ravaged and defiled.
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p.
166
"You see my power" Grunhag quoth, "Let Imbach see and quake in
fear, and pay me treasure, wealth and slaves" he added with a sneer.
139
Lord Uri sat in Imbach's hall, his brow as hard as knotted flint. "No
Ork shall take our folk as slaves, nor what we win from laden rock,
while one in Imbach still draws breath" he told proud Grunhag
"Nothing here is yours except an Ork-shaped hole and headstone with
your name."
Called Imbach to the vain Eldar, "Your enemy is at our gates. Come to
our aid against your foes, together let us lay them low." The Eldar never
made reply, but left fair Imbach to the Orks. "We fight alone, then" Uri
said "Our friends leave us to die".
-from The Fall of Imbach
Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories
and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and
frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!
- Report to the Imperial Guard High Command (Thuro)
[Needs Citation]
140
Adeptus Arbites
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Adeptus
Arbites
Remember that it is the duty of the mighty Adeptus Astartes Chapters

and the glorious Imperial Guard to wage the Emperor's wars and the
duty of the fearless Imperial Navy to guard the Emperor's spaceways,
but it is to his loyal servants the Adeptus Arbites that His Divine
Majesty in His infinite wisdom entrusts the most sacred duty of all Keeping in check the lawless heretic rabble that passes itself off as the
Emperor's worthy subjects.
- Familiar old precinct-house joke
Execution
Hour
(Novel),
Part Three,
pgs. 73-74
To serve the Emperor. To protect His domains. To judge and stand

guard over His subjects. To carry the Emperor's law to all worlds
under His blessed protection. To pursue and punish those who
trespassed against His word.
- Oath sworn by cadets
Execution
Hour
(Novel),
Part Three,
pg. 80
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Codex Arbites - the

Commandments of Justice
We determine the guilty. We decide

the punishment.
Codex Imperialis,
[Needs Citation]
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Praetor
Kolbe
Well he's not getting mine.

-after dispatching a Khornate
cultist howling "Blood for the
Blood God!"
The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain: Hero

of the Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter 16, p. 700
L
Speaker
Quote
Judge Lemog,
Hive Fal-sha,
Sheldton's
World
The violators of the Emperor's law must be punished how dare

they question His will, His judgement if their deeds go unchecked
then chaos will surely reign I have no choice but to sentence the
offenders to death, effective immediately and without appeal you
have your orders gentlemen, may the Emperor's blessing go with
you.
- Decree before the Sector 17 Massacre
Source
[Needs
Citation]
141
P
Speaker
Quote
Promise of the
Pax Imperialis
Source
No servant of the Emperor dies unavenged.

Eternal Damnation (Graphic
No enemy of the Emperor escapes
Novel), short-story Testament
unpunished!
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Judge
Traggat
Claims of innocence mean nothing; they serve only to

prove a foolish lack of caution.
- Selected Sayings, Vol. III, Chapter IV
Codex Imperialis[Needs
Citation]
Z
Speaker
Vorkas
Zolowski
Quote
Source
They live there in that great plascrete tower surrounded by walls and
razor wire, only emerging to seize some unfortunate who has
transgressed against the Imperial Laws or to patrol the city to prove
that it belongs to them. There are crystal lenses and sound wave
White
detectors on that tower that can watch citizens and listen to their
Dwarf
conversations 100 leagues away, Imperial spy satellites watch what
article
on
they can't see directly and even the Governor fears them. They aren't
Arbites
from here and have nothing to do with us, no more than Orks or Eldar,
if they have families or children we don't know about them and we
squads[Nee
don't care. They wouldn't so much as buy a glowbulb from us and we ds Citation]
would not sell it to them. It's ironic that they have the rather
benevolent title of Arbitrators.
-on the Adeptus Arbites prior to his arrest for pernicious sedition against
the Emperor
Unattributed
Quote
Source
To be just, our law must be cruel.
Crossfire (Novel) by Matthew

Farrer, Chapter Eight, pg. 189
Praise the Emperor! The Emperor's word is the Law, and

the Arbites are the voice by which that word is spoken!
Crossfire (Novel), Chapter Eight,

pg. 185
To stand upon the bedrock of the Law is our great duty. To

presume to stand above it is our worst heresy.
Crossfire (Novel), Chapter Eight,

pg. 188
142
Eldar
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Imperial
Commander
Abriel Hume
Trust not in their appearance, for the Eldar are as

alien to good, honest men as the vile Tyranids and
savage Orks. There is no understanding them for
there is nothing to understand - they are a
random force in the universe.
Codex: Eldar (4th

Edition), p. 37
Only when you have soared through the morning

skies on wings of flame can you understand the
Hawk. Only when you have fallen screaming
Anthrillien
upon those who know they are already dead can
Morningchild, you understand the Banshee. Only when you have
Autarch of Yme- annihilated those who would oppose you can you
Loc
truly understand the power of the Dragon. And
only one who has travelled but ultimately turned
away from each of these paths can understand the
Autarch.
Codex: Eldar (4th

Edition), p. 29
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
Aulirel
Attack swiftly, and without warning. This is the
Careful Planning Doomhand,
mantra of the Striking Scorpions it is the way of
Minor Stratagem",
Striking
all our kind.
Scorpion Exarch
2015)
Avatar of Khaine
Behold, the fiery destroyer of worlds.
Dawn of War
I walk again, a god among mere mortals.
Dawn of War
143
C
Speaker
Farseer
Caerys of
Ulthw
Quote
Source
We have made battle in this place before. We have fought and

won. Fought because we knew that we must. We won, and
brought upon ourselves glory that will not fade as long as
Ulthw thrives. Now we are called to battle again. Must we
perform a duty which we have already accomplished? If we fight
and fail, are our former victories tarnished?
- on arriving in Essir Il-Tanil
[Needs Citation]
We are like echoes in a cave, or waves upon the water:

performing our part every time we are called. We who have
glimpsed into the flow of time see that it is exactly such vast
confluence, paths crossed and re-crossed. All are swept along.
And we Eldar, masters of hindsight, insight, and foresight are
bound that much more tightly to our duty than the ignorant, the
Dawn of War:
belligerent, the blind.
Soulstorm
When one truly understands fate as it is, myriad branching
paths, then one can truly see that duty is cleaving to a particular
fate, and glory is the accomplishment of dutys ends. When we
are true to the nature of the Eldar, we cannot fail.
Inquisitor
Czevak
They shall come, expecting the obvious, the simple, the artless.
They shall stab at the shadows with confused minds and
troubled hearts. Meanwhile, we shall appear unseen from ten
directions, and from every one strike a fatal blow.
Dawn of War:
Soulstorm
The mind of the Farseer is utterly inhuman in its depth and

complexity. Without mercy or moral feeling, his consciousness
stands upon the edge of spiritual destruction. That he does not
fall must be a result of constraints and balances that only an
Eldar could understand. To a mere Human it is yet another
reminder that we are but children in comparison to that ancient
and powerful race.
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition),
p. 7
The first thing one must learn about the Eldar is that they are a
race of fragments, broken and scattered across the galaxy. In
culture, geography and technology, the disparate elements of the Eldar & Dark
Eldar race vary wildly. Even within a single sub-race (the soEldar
called kindreds of the Craftworld Eldar, Exodites, 'Dark' Eldar
Collectors'
and the mysterious Harlequins) there is great diversity of
Guide, p. 3
tradition and attitude
- Teachings of the Unholy
A craftworld is sentient being , with a hundred thousand minds.
- the Living Worlds
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition),
p. 13
Ask not the Eldar a question, for they will give you three
Codex: Eldar
144
answers, all of which are true and terrifying to know.
(4th Edition),
p. 52
Against the Great Enemy the Eldar have no hope of victory.

They hang on to existence, yet their grip upon the universe is
slipping, their hold becomes more precarious with every passing
year.
[Needs Citation]
Though I have seen within the Black Library and spoken to its
most terrible guardian, I can never reveal what happened there;
not to any man nor even the Emperor himself for I am so
forsworn to powers beyond your knowledge. I can only say that
a time of inconceivable horror is about to begin. A time when
mankind with all the might of the Imperium cannot endure
when the strength of the Eldar fails. Even now, our doom stalks
us across the stars.
- at the Conclave of Har from The Har Transcriptorum
[Needs Citation]
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lord-Phoenix Dreamspinner,
Ghost-Warrior Iyanden Craft
World
No barrier, no enemy will thwart

my purpose. This night I bring him
the dream of death!
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p. 73
E
Speaker
Quote
Source
Elarique
Swiftblade,
Autarch of
Alaitoc
There is no corner of the galaxy that has not felt the eagle-keen
gaze of Alaitoc.
Codex:
Eldar (4th
Edition),
p. 19
What do Humans know of our pain? We have sung songs of lament

since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
Codex:
Eldar (4th
Edition),
p. 4
Eldrad
Ulthran,
Farseer of
Ulthw
Codex:
He who sees his own doom can better avoid its path. He who sees the Eldar (4th
doom of others can deliver it.
Edition),
p. 18
All the stars in the sky cannot blot out the hateful glare of the red
moon's eye. The birthing place of the Great Enemy pulses with all
the malice of a daemon that is dreaming, casting its shadow over all
we have ever done and all we ever shall.
- (on the Ocularis Terribus - the Eye of Terror)
Iron
Hands
(Novel)
by
Jonathan
Green,
[Needs
145
Citation],
pg. 7
Iron
Hands
(Novel),
When there is no other way, the perilous path is the only road to
salvation.
[Needs
Citation],
pg. 243
Since the time of The Fall, our race has been haunted by what we, in
our reckless pursuit of hedonistic indulgence, gave birth to. Though
our dreams once overturned worlds and quenched suns, we are now
but fitful shadows clinging to the edge of existence. All the stars in
the sky cannot blot out the hateful glare of the Red Moon's Eye. The
birthing place of The Great Enemy pulses with all the malice of a
daemon that is dreaming, casting its shadow over all we have ever
done and all we ever shall. Every twisted strand of Fate and casting
of the Runes leads me to this time, to this place, and it is clear that
the final battle awaits me at the ancient Crone Worlds. A conflict the
likes of which has not been seen since the Mon-keigh warred
amongst themselves, and their corpse of a seer fell to his traitorous
son, is coming and all my steps lead towards it, no matter that I walk
other paths. I see the stars stained red with the blood of the MonKeigh and, though their wars do not concern me and I would gladly
let them destroy one another, I know that to avoid this fight is to
condemn my race to inevitable doom. And though all I see is
darkness, I know that I will not flinch from my destiny.
[Needs
Citation]
G
Speaker
Grnwald,
Ordo Xenos
Quote
Source
Perfidious Eldar! These aliens had the stars in their grasp and
now are left to sift the dust of their once fabulous realm. For all Codex: Eldar
their intellect and mysticism they could not contain the beast (4th Edition),
within them, nor tame the wild monsters of the Shadow. Why
p. 24
should we pay them any heed?
H
Speaker
Quote
Source
Hrythar
Dreamweave,
Wild Rider
The wind whipping across your face as your blades whip

across the throats of the foe. It makes the blood sing.
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition),
p. 17
Abriel Hume,
Imperial
Commander
Trust not in their appearance, for the Eldar are as alien to

good, honest men as the vile Tyranids and savage Orks.
There is no understanding them for there is nothing to
understand - they are a random force in the universe.
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition),
pg. 37
146
I
Speaker
Quote
Source
Iraelun, Alaitoc
Farseer
The portents are good, the

Warp flows strong and pure
here. Our sorcery will undo
the foul slaves of the dark
powers.

expansion game, "Psychic Relay Minor Stratagem", (saved archive
page, dated February 2011, last
Lord-Phoenix
Ironstorm, SpiritWarrior of the BielTan Craftworld
My only remaining pleasure is

to bring death to the enemies
of my Craft World.
Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, p.

72
Spiritseer Iyanna
Arienal
The universe is tripatite: the

sunlight of the material plane,
the darkness of the spirit
plane, and the twilight of the
spaces betwixt the two.
Codex: Eldar (4th Edition), p. 46
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Farseer Kelmon
Gather the dead for war, let them join our ranks, lest we
are forced to join theirs.
The Defence of
Iyanden (site
accessed
2007.06.02)
Kysaduras the
Anchorite,
Introspections
Upon Perfection
The young do not desire the discipline of the Path, but

rather their curiosity drives them to try every fruit from
the tree. Thus it is that so many take the Path of
Wandering or the Path of Damnation in their first years
of adulthood, and so the great tragedy of our kind is
played out again and again as the number of our people
shrink from generation to generation.
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition), p.
38
L
Speaker
Quote
Source
Laconfir of BielTan
There is no art more beautiful and diverse

as the art of death.
Codex: Eldar (4th Edition),

p. 41
Warlock Lorith of
Alaitoc
Eradicate them all, we can no longer

tolerate their filthy presence here.
Codex: Craftworld Eldar

(3rd Edition), p. 2
147
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lord-Phoenix
Madallaith, Bieltan
Make no mistake, Human. We do not fight for your

Emperor. We fight against Horus.
Let not the fear of death stay your hand nor defeat
Codex:
your courage. The warrior who will prevail is the one
Craftworld Eldar
who conquers death, who becomes one with death as
(3rd Edition), p. 3
we have.
Phoenix Lord
Maugan Ra
War is my master; Death my mistress.

Mauryon of Bieltan
Theres only one true path in life the path that leads
to war.
Farseer Mirehn
Bielann
The stars themselves once lived and died at our

command, yet you still dare to oppose our will.
Codex:
Craftworld Eldar
(3rd Edition), p.
59
Codex: Eldar (4th

Edition), p. 10
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Nuadhu
'Fireheart'
Feel the rush of the wind against your skin and hear her
keening cry in your ears. Listen to her call well, for are we
not the Wild Riders, the children of the storm?
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition), p.
40
Q
Speaker
Quote
Source
Exarch
Quaillindral
The time for using the knife to remove this

cancer is long gone. Bring forth the torch.
The Defence of Iyanden (site

accessed 2007.06.02)
R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Ralamine It is too easy for an Eldar to embrace the obscene virtues of Chaos,
Codex:
Mung,
for Slaanesh is nothing more than a manifestation of the Eldar
Eldar (4th
Ordo Xenos mind in its most wild and unconstrained form. Human morality is Edition),
meaningless to the Eldar, and to the dark side of the Eldar mind all
p. 59
live is to be expended at a whim. Cruelty and generosity are but the
impulse of a moment. Beauty and sensuality are virtues that can be
expressed in bloodshed just as easily as in song. To an unfettered
Eldar mind there is neither sanity nor madness, but merely a wave
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of perfect existence fulfilled by its own savage momentum.

We bring only death, and leave only carrion. It is a message even a
Human can understand.
Codex:
Eldar (4th
Edition),
p. 16
Speaker
Quote
Source
Farseer
Taldeer,
Craftworld
Ulthw
I hear the song of the celestial heavens, and the music is

cacophonous. It is strange but I find comfort in its dissonance.
Righting the discord of the universal opus is whats given my
people purpose when, by all rights we as a race should have
collapsed in upon ourselves. It is in such moments when species
find their greatness or settle back into the muck that spawned
them... For myself I have purpose if only to correct one particular
stray note in a symphony ran amok. Win or lose, this battle is
already my victory, my triumph. It is now fate which decides
whether I am there to celebrate that fact or not.
Dawn of
War Dark
Crusade
Requiel of
the Sons of
Fuegan
U
Speaker
Farseer
Ulthos of
Alaitoc
Quote
Source
... and the Engines of Vaul will smite them, and bring
fire upon them, and in agony they will depart this realm,
Imperial Armour II their souls screaming into the black void that awaits their
Ork, Eldar and Dark
pitiful race. And with their banishment there will be
Eldar Vehicles for
peace in this place, and we will be one step further along Warhammer 40,000, pg.
the road we must tread...
15
- before the cleansing of Krayak's Moon
Y
Speaker
Prince Yriel,
Autarch of Iyanden
Quote
Source
The dead must join our ranks, lest we

be forced to join theirs.
Codex: Eldar (4th Edition), p.

20
We may have won the battle, but our

ancestors have lost their souls.
The Defence of Iyanden (site

accessed 2007.06.02)
Death eases the spirit.
149
Anonymous/Unattributed 5
Speaker
Unknown
Harlequin
Quote
Source
I come to dance the Dance of Death.
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Death and Fate have taken the stage.
In war there is poetry; in death, release.
Naval saying
You may as well try to catch starlight as bring Eldar to battle.
Message
received prior
to the Assyri
Devastation
We warned you of the price of your actions, now you must

pay it in full - in blood.
Codex: Eldar
(4th Edition), p.
32
Death Chant
recited in
preparation for
a Soul-Graft
Though my body dies, I will remain

Evermore.
My spirit stays on in this flesh of metal.
Evermore.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
p. 73
Last words of a
captured Eldar
Ranger,
subsequently
executed
Eldrad is the greatest among us. He is the sun which

Codex: Eldar
eclipses the light of our stars. He is Ulthw and the fate of (3rd Edition), p.
our kind rests in his hands. His eyes are the keenest, no
39
detail goes unnoticed. Four thousand runes can he cast,
guiding our path through torment and war, death and
salvation. He is the pathfinder, the seeker, the true guide.
Even your race has trembled before his might, though you
may not have known it. It was he who guided us to the Ork
known as Ghazghkull, and commanded us to steer his path
to your world of Armageddon. Ten thousand Eldar lives
would have been lost if he had not done so. What sacrifice
is a million humans for such a cause?
He knows your affairs better than you do yourself. He
warned that weakling seer you call Emperor of the
treachery of Horus and the strife which would engulf us,
just as it engulfed the rest of the galaxy, but your arrogance
deafened you to his words. Your stupidity almost destroyed
the galaxy, yet you never knew how close the forces of light
were to our ultimate defeat. He saw the Great Devourer
and warned our kin on Iyanden, even before they had
neared our galaxy.
To him all futures are laid out, just as your crude
implements of torture are laid out on the cold metal of that
shelf. You say we are random and capricious, we say you
are vulgar and idiotic. Some of you call us your enemies.
All races are our enemy in time. Some of you call us your
150
allies. You are not allies, any more than a butchers knife is
his ally. You are tools, nothing more. To be used and
expended to protect our race, that is your fate.
Your kind think you are so magnificent, yet even now, at
the nadir of our power, we can manipulate you, turn you to
our ends, as easily as you might pull a trigger and fire a
gun. Our time will come again, Eldrad has promised us.
Once more you upstart Mon-keigh [subject spits] shall
kneel before our power! This time we will not be so lenient!
We will exterminate you, every world, every vessel, every
one of you! Eldrad has seen the stars stained red with your
blood, and it pleases him!
You think us weak, but we will be your doom, children of
Earth.
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Orks
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Bad Moons
Klan
You're rich! You're flashy! You 'ave a proppa Orky

stoutness about your belly! And you've got more big,
shooty, and dead 'ard gear than any 2 other Orks put
together. Da uvver clans orta make way for da Bad
Moons!
[Needs Citation]
Travellin' through space is boring. Well, boring

unless da hulk yer on is full of dem gene-sneakers, or
a base fer da chaos lads wiv da spikes, or already has
Boyz on it. Or if humie lootas come callin', that's
always good fer a bit a sport. Or unless yer have a
Bigmaw, Ork mutiny or two to pass da time, or unless strange fings
Runtherd
start happenin', which dey usually do when yer out in
da warp. One time we had some bloody great ugly
fing come straight out of Weird Lugwort's 'ed! It
butchered half da lads, that was pretty entertainin'.
Come ter fink of it, space is a pretty good larf. And
that's before yer find yerself a nice world ta crush!
Bluddflagg,
Ork Kaptin
Dem Inquisishun humies can't be trusted any further

dan day can be thrown, which in dat one's case
might be a bad example.
All Orks is equal, but some Orks are more equal dan
Goff Warboss
uvvas.
Bugrat
-on being accused of taking more than his fair share of
Skumdreg
the booty from the latest battle
Buzzgob da
Burna Boy,
Ork Warlord
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 18
Warhammer 40,000:
Dawn of War II Retribution
'Ere We Go, p. 24
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
Hur, hur, hur... look at Lubdogs lads gettin all killed
Reinforcements - Minor
off. Stupid tin eds should save some ammo.
Stratagem", (saved
Roktoofs gitz will be arrivin any second now...
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
accessed 6 October 2015
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C
Speaker
Commissar
Ciaphas
Cain
Quote
Source
I was bright enough even then to know a serious threat when

I saw one.... For one thing, the creatures running towards
me were big, and bulging with muscle in a fashion I'd only
previously seen on ogryns. Even a Catachan would have
looked distinctly puny next to one of these monstrosities. Tiny
red eyes glared from beneath an exaggerated brow ridge, but
unlike the holos I'd seen, they were alive with malevolence,
and what, if not exactly intelligence, was the kind of
instinctive cunning which quite often made up for its lack.
-during the Siege of Perlia
Death or Glory
(Novel) - Ciaphas
Cain: Defender of
the Imperium
(Omnibus) by
I've got to know a great deal more about these creatures over Sandy Mitchell,
the last century or so, since that first disconcerting
Chapter Six, pg.
encounter, and one thing I've seen time and again is that
75
dismissing them as simple, unreasoning brutes is a fast route
to the graveyard (or more likely their stomachs).
Despite their bulk they moved swiftly, and with a kind of
grace completely at odds with their appearance, every
movement economical and precise.
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Dagskar
Snotgob,
Boss, boss? Shouldnt we ave appeared over
Gretchin Slaver
dere?
-at the battle of
Ursus Prime

Displacer Field - Minor
Dedeye, Kaptin
Gork loves me, and Mork finks I is da best.

No puny oomies is gonna kill me, not when
da greenest gods in da galaxy is watchin me!

"Battle Fate - Minor
Bugsplatta
Defnik of the
Red Wheelz
Speed Freeks
Wes stomped umies, wes blown up stuff and

wes driven our traks from one end of da
world to da uvva. Wes gonna come back next
year!
[Needs Citation]
legendary Ork
Smartboy
Derek Zog
The best means of Attack is Defence, an' the

best means of Attack is a really really Big
One, right, with lots of Boys an' dead big
shooty things an' what have ya.
Deff Skwadron (Graphic

Novel), short-story Da big
push, first page
153
Warlord
Dragnatz
Weve got our Gargantz an weve got our

weapons. Wot ain't we got? We aint got
anyfing for target practice iz wot! So I'll tell
you wot we're gonna do. Were gonna give da
Humies a taste of ot metal death is wot. Wes
gonna take Big Gork and Big Mork ere an
wes gonna stomp Hummie!
- preparing the Boyz for the Waaagh!
[Needs Citation]
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
Fat Druzka,
Flash Git
Bought me a deffblasta off Rotskrag earlier. Nice

little killa. Just ask Rotskrag, hur hur.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 14
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Gasgrakh, Goff
Nob
We're da best. Think diffrent do ya? Come and

have a go then, ya runty little wimp!
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 13
Ghazghkull Mag
Uruk Thraka
We is gonna stomp da universe flat and kill

anyfink that fights back. we're da Orks, and was
made ta fight and win.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 106
I'm da hand of Gork and Mork, dey sent me to

Codex: Orks (4th
rouse up da boyz to crush and kill cos da boyz Edition), p. 91 (a reduced
forgot what dere ere for. I woz one of da boyz till
version)
da godz smashed me in da ead an I membered
dat Orks is meant to conquer and make slaves of
everyfing they dont kill.
Im da profit of da Waaagh an whole worlds
burn in my boot prints. On Armour-Geddem, I
led da boyz through da fire deserts and smashed
da humies metal cities to scrap. I fought Yarik,
old one-eye at Tarturus, an he fought good but
we smashed iz city too.
Im death to anyfing dat walks or crawls, where I
go nothin stands in my way. We crushed da
stunties on Golgotha, an we caught old one-eye
when da speed freeks blew da humies big tanks
ta bits. I let im go cause good enemies iz ard to
find, an Orks need enemies ta fight like they need
meat ta eat an grog ta drink.
I iz more cunnin than a grot an more killy than
a dread, da boyz dat follow me cant be beat. On
154
Pissenah we jumped da marine-boyz an our

bosspoles was covered in da helmets we took from
da dead uns. We burned dere port an killed dere
bosses an left nothin but ruins behind. Im
Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka an I
speak wiv da word of da gods. We iz gonna stomp
da ooniverse flat an kill anyfing that fights
back. We iz gonna do this coz were Orks an we
was made ta fight an win!
- Graffiti on Warlord Battle Titan wreckage, found
by Dark Angels at Westerisle, Piscina IV
Humies is all weak scum that deserve ta get
stomped. 'Cept for One-Eye Yarrick. He knows
how ter fight.

(5th Edition), pg. 63
Gibli the Gretchin
Were safe ere Gobbitz. Theres no way da

beakies can get to us at the top of dis cliff...
- Last words before being overrun by Space
Marine Assault troops from the Salamanders
Chapter
[Needs Citation]
Ork Dreadnought
Ace 'Jip'
Gobsmak
Dere's jus' one fing wiv kans wot ya'av ta bovver

about - Sittin' on dat spring gives ya piles!
Warhammer 40,000
Compendium, p.57
Exchange
between Warboss
Gorgutz 'Ead
'Unter, and
Tomas Macabee,
Necron Pariah
Gorgutz: You looks like an oomie dats needs some

feeding, metal boy.
Macabee: We exterminated all life on this planet
before, and we shall do so again.
Gorgutz: Dat woz before me Waaagh! got 'ere.
Now, we is da wuns doin' da 'sterminating!
OI! Lissen ta me wen Iz talkin to ya! Wez

gonna go on dere ship, wez gonna smash it up
an kill anyfing dat gets in our way, an den wez
Gorgal 'edkicker gonna get back on da boat an go home. Datll
show em. Do you lot of umie runts unnastand
dat? Good. Now, wiv me: WAAAGH!
- sanctioned Ork, briefing a human Boarding party
Gorsmak,
Big Mek
Dawn of War: Dark

Crusade
Yer boss, dese weapons are the best wunz ever. Da

Boyz will hit better, an arder than ever before!
Rogue Trader: Into the

Storm, p. 66
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
"Special Combat
Weapons - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
155
February 2011, last

accessed 6 October
2015)
Grodd, Snakebite
Runtherd
Live off the land. Go to find war. Kill wot comes

close. The old ways are best.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 14
Mad Dok
Grotsnik
Operate! Operate! Still time to operate!
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 59
Grukk, Ork Boy
We don't fight fer food, or fer teef, or guns, or cos

we's told to fight. We fight cos we woz born to
fight. And win.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 41
Dok Gutslash
Right, first I'll take those teef out for yer, dat
should help ease da pain in yer leg. Grokkit, hand
me that wrench. Now then... Open wide, and
say... AAARGH!
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 38
H
Speaker
Quote
Source
Not enuff nails?

Doc
Hacksore
Warboss
Headkrakka
- Nah, I put da little feller in upside down.

- musing why his newly constructed dreadnought wasn't working
[Needs
Citation]
Oy, iz dis thing on?! Yeah, dis here is a message for da' grayskin
bosses and their kroot. If'n you're gettin' any pictures wiff this
thing, you can see what we done to your kroot over there. They's all
dead and making for nice decorations on me new boss-hut. If'n
Dawn of
you're not getting da pictures, just take one of da kroot near you
War: Dark
an' rip 'em in half. It's like that. Dis here is Warboss Hedkrakka
Crusade
and it wuz me and me boyz that did this to yer kroot. Dis here is
Hedkrakka's land now and we'z all coming to see you'z next! I
need some grayskins for me boss-hut!
K
Speaker
Kog da Flymek,
pioneer of the
Dethkopta
Provost-Major
Kyne, at the courtmartial of Lt Gordo
Quote
Source
Codex:
Wot's faster than a warbuggy, more killy than a warbike, and
Orks (4th
flies through da air like a bird? I got no bleedin' idea, but I'm
Edition), p.
gonna find out.
48
Half-glimpsed shadows? Ork wearing camouflage? Do you
take us for imbeciles? Orks are barbaric and entirely singleminded. Army dogma, which has served us well for ten
thousand years, teaches us this. Greenskins come on in a
great horde, they do not slink and sneak in the shade.
Codex:
Orks (4th
Edition), p.
44
156
Guards! Take the prisoner to the holding cells to await

execution for cowardice and incompetence.
L
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lugnut of the
Bladed Wheels
Evil Sunz like two fings most: Going fast and

krumpin' stuff. Dat's why we'z so good at it.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 13
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
Morglum Necksnapper
The only good 'ooman is a dead 'ooman. An' da

only fing better than a dead 'ooman'z a dyin'
'ooman who tell you where ter find 'is mates.
Waaargh:
Orks, p. 82
Morgaash Kulgraz
Warlord of UndredUndred Teef, Kaptin of Da
Wurldbreaka
Iz smashed umies an panzies an birdboyz an

dogfaces; Iz gonna smash anyfing wot gets in my
way, an take wotz left. I iz da biggest, ardest boss
in all da Spanse, da biggest Kaptin ov UndredUndred Teef, and nuffin kan stop me!
Rogue
Trader: Into
the Storm p.
58
N
Speaker
Quote
Source
Nazdakka
Boomsnik,
Renowned
Mekboy
Da best shoota I eva made, dat iz. Loadza barrulz,

so dat its ded shooty. Sept dat wun, cos dats da
skorcha, dats burny insted. Yeah, good an propa.
An da bullitz is splosiv...dey goez boom inna
fings wot youz shootin. An dat button
dere...dats da best bit. Wot it duz, see, iz...iz...oh,
zog. Nah, its nuffin boss. Nah, youz dont need
ta see wot dat button duz...onist. Dont push it!
- Last words

Storm p. 94
Nekbrekka,
Warboss
Look lads, dose stoopid oomies have left a bomb

behind. Huh, its got wire attached to it. Luzgit,
help me pull dis fing free.
- shortly before he earned his bionics

card "Booby-trap - Minor
2015)
Nuzzgrond of
the Black
Skulls
Da only lost race I ever heard of woz when Hef

crashed his trike in da final stretch of da crossdessert rally. Cost me a few teef, that.
Codex: Orks (4th Edition),

p. 7
157
P
Speaker
Quote
Source
Kaptain Parrkurr of the Ork

Landa Funderbird Too
Aim fer dat big buildin over der. No da uvver

wun! NO DAT WUN! Zoggit, just land it ere.
[Needs
Citation]
R
Speaker
Quote
Source
Get 'em boyz!

Dakka dakka dakka!
Rotgob, Ork
strategist
WAAAGH! THE ORKS!
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 94
WAAAGH!
'Fingaz' Rutzeg,
Deathskull Loota
Wot, this? Naw, I've had this fer ages. Of course the
Codex: Orks (4th
paint's still wet, it's me favourite. Sell it to ya if you like.
Edition), p. 15
One careful owner.
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Korporal Snagbrat
of the Dreadblade
Kommandos
Us Blood axes have learnt a lot from da humies. How

best ta kill 'em, fer example.
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 15
Skabgutz, Ork
trukk Boy
Oi! Stop runnin' away, yer snivellin' humies, we got a

race on here!
Apocalypse
Datasheet "Ork
Trukk Konvoy
Warlord
Skarmork The
Great Despoiler
They got ded big shooty guns dat'll kill tons of boyz, but
if you can get near em den you've got a chance. Just
gotta make sure you bring loads of boyz, coz you ain't
gonna have a whole lot left when you get close enough
ta crump em.
- description of the Tau
Codex: Tau (3rd

Edition), p. 30
Snikskin, Ork
Kommando
Da ooman base iz got walls an fings, see. So, if Iz goes

up to da wall, all sneaky-like, and blows it up wiv me
bombs, den derell be an ole in da wall wot da ladz can
go fru, see. So, when youz lot ears sumfing go boom,
you charge, cos derell be an ole in da wall.
Unnastand?
- explaining a plan to a group of other Orks
Rogue Trader:
Into the Storm p.
92
158
I dunno wot you been told,

Stormboy mobs is mighty bold,
Stormboy drillchant
Codex: Orks (4th

Edition), p. 47
We're da hardest of da lot,

We make you lot look like Grots.
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Genetor Aurelius
Thoze, Adeptus
Mechanicus
Xenobiologist.
Ork Physiology is fascinating and terrifying in equal measure,

demonstrating inhuman degrees of resilience to the point
where they can withstand seemingly fatal wounds with little
apparent long-term consequence. Indeed, Orks witnessed
suffering fatal wounds in the midst of heavy fighting have
often been observed again several days later, larger and
stronger than they were before their injuries and with no sign
of those wounds save for some largely superficial scarring.
Rogue
Trader:
Into the
Storm p.
58
U
Speaker
Quote
Source
From Culture vs.

Kultur: Thoughts on
Orkish Society by
Uthan the Perverse, a
controversial Eldar
philosopher
The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the

great struggle is won. They have evolved a society
which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge
them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on
the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we
sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't
even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong
and despise it as crude.
Codex: Orks
(4th Edition),
p. 8; Waaargh:
Orks p. 62
Waaagh from above,

ordered by Uzgob (callsign: Mavarork),
Kommanda of the Deff
Skwadron
Hit 'em hard, Hit 'em low and give 'em plenty of
Dakka
[Needs Citation]
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Motto of Vulcha
Squad
Shooty Deff from

da Sky
Imperial Armour II - Ork, Eldar and Dark Eldar Vehicles

159
W
Speaker
Quote
Wortgrod Mugskab - Ork DOK! Me arm got shot off! Gimme a

Boy
newun!
Source
Storm p. 58
X
Speaker
Xanthius,
High Lord
of Terra
Quote
Source
The Orks plague the galaxy from the end to end with their ceaseless
warring and strife. They are a race rooted so deeply in war that
Codex:
peace is utterly incomprehensible to them. They cannot be bargained
Orks (4th
with or bought save with weapons that they will inevitable turn
Edition), p.
against those who tried to bribe them. I pray with all my faith that
92
some great catastrophe will annihilate them but I fear that
ultimately it is they, not we, who shall rule the galaxy.
Unattributed 6
Quote
Orkses is never defeated in battle. If we win we win, if we die we
die fighting so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die
neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!
Speaker
Source
Commonly
Codex: Orks
held Ork view (4th Edition),
of warfare
p. 49
Oomans are pink and soft, not tough and green like da Boyz.
They'z all the same size too, so they'z always arguing about
who's in charge, 'cos no way of telling 'cept fer badges an'
ooniforms and fings. When one of them wants to lord it over the
Codex: Orks
uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or
(4th Edition),
An anonymous
"I know summink wot you lot don't know so yer better lissen
p. 40;
Ork Boy
good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf
Waaargh:
don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it. Wot a lot of
Orks, p. 81
mukkin' about if yer asks me. An' while they'z all arguing wiv
each other over who's da boss, da Orks can clobber da lot - on
Humanity and its weaknesses
Orkz is made fer' two fings! Fightin', and winnin'!
Look at me flash, Boss!

Well, course dis ones betta! Its lotz eavier, and gots dem
spikey bitz on de ends.
Unknown
Nob, Battle of Dawn of War
Magna Bonum
Anonymous
Flash Git
Dawn of
War: Dark
Crusade
Anonymous
Rogue
Ork describing Trader: Into
his custom sh the Storm p.
160
Tau
A
Speaker
Aun'Cho, Tau
Ethereal
Quote
Source

Beneath the protective umbrella of the
"Energy Shield Relay Point shield relay, we are all but untouchable.
Minor Stratagem", (saved
Once more, our science and enlightenment
archive page, dated February
makes brings us closer to our ultimate aims.
2011, last accessed 5 October
2015)
Aun'el
Shi'Ores
Soldiers of the Fire Caste! Kroot and Vespid

allies! Today, we stand as a bulwark against
the selfish, the soulless, and the mad! Today,
we must drive back our enemies from our
city and from our world! Today, more than
ever before, we fight for the Greater Good!
And we will triumph!
- attributed
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of

War - Dark Crusade, Tau
stronghold introduction
Aun'ko'vash
Even when broken, a sword may still cut.
Fire Warrior (Novel), p. 170
Aun'shi of the
Tau Empire
Aun'Va, Master
of the Undying
Spirit
How ironic it is that as fast as we spread

progress and hope throughout the galaxy,
Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition),
the Tyranids spread death and despair. Only
p. 43
united can we hope to stand against them.
I have taken great pains not to laugh at the
actions of aliens, nor to weep at them or to
hate them, but to understand them.
- attributed
Codex: Tau (3rd Edition), p. 52
It burns so briefly, the light of my children,

so briefly. But, by the Greater Good, it
burns so bright!
Codex: Tau Empire (4th

Edition), p. 42
It saddens me greatly that we must take

arms against the peoples of the galaxy. By
their deaths, they deny themselves the

Edition), p. 66
161
liberation that is only to be found in total

surrender to the Greater Good.
Let none doubt that the Tau Empire will
bring unity to all let none doubt that now
is our time. Forward, for the Greater Good!
-addressing the Fire caste cadres from a top
the ruins of the Agrellan Hive

Edition), In Unity, Strength
Our Conquest is inevitable, our ascension a

matter of time. Let none who are wise deny
our destiny.

Edition), The Tau Empire
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Guardsman,
Cauley, 25th
Graian Rifles
Our tanks were useless. As soon as we broke cover, their

battlesuits' heavy guns were locked on to us. I swear it was as
though they had someone nearby aiming for them before they
shot. And when they did shoot...Emperor's mercy! Their guns
punched through our armour like it was paper. all I could see
were trails of fire where the projectiles had ignited the air.
Codex: Tau
(3rd
Edition), p.
30
Por'vre Tau'n
Ch'koras
There is no victory without unity, no peace when there's

conflict. In this dark time, we can only forget our differences
and fight the darkness together.
[Needs
Citation]
Por'vre Tau
Cho, Water
caste envoy
They are fierce indeed these Kroot, and savage. I look upon
them and tremble at their ferocity. I can only hope that when
the enemy sees them they tremble as I do.
- to Sy'lkell prior to the ambush of the 17th Brimlock Dragoons
Codex: Tau
(3rd
Edition), p.
29;
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p.
17
Speaker
Quote
Source
Eldrad Ulthran,
Farseer of Ulthw
Craftworld
I have followed the myriad potential futures of the Tau with

great interest. Though barely even striplings compared to
us, I feel a strange protectiveness towards them. In time I
believe they will exceed even our greatest feats and master
the darkness within their souls.
Codex: Tau
(3rd
Edition), p.
61
F
Speaker
Quote
Source
Commander
Farsight
Each must find their own way. If those in our heartland had
witnessed the savageries of the void as have we they would
know this. The hand of each of the starfarers is turned against
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p.
162
the other; none will join their strength together just to see
their ancient enemies prosper. Neither should we.
- attributed, 765.M41
44
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Gorok, Kroot
Shaper
Go carefully, commissar. And feed on your enemies. May

we have no cause for conflict.
-to Ciaphas Cain, on Gravalax
For the Emperor

(Novel) by Sandy
Mitchell, Chapter
Three
Rogue Trader
Guarnerius
It is well that they are known as the Water caste. One

might as well try to nail the sea to the wall as pin them
down with a straight answer. They flow around your
words until they wear you down, like the trickle of water
that over time will split the rock.
Codex: Tau (3rd

Edition), p. 25
Codex: Tau Empire
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Shas'o Vior'la
Kais, Fire
Warrior
commander
A thousand fibres connect each of us with our fellow Tau and

along those fibres our deeds run as causes which come back to
us as effects. Everything we must do must be in furtherance of
the Greater Good lest we return to the Montau, the Terror.
Codex:
Tau (3rd
Edition), p.
26
Codex:
Tau
Empire
(4th
Edition), p.
5
Major Kane,
Mordant 607th
Heavy
Armoured
Regiment
One of their light walkers carried a weapon of lethal effect. It

fired a form of ultra-high velocity projectile. I saw one of our
tanks after having been hit by it. There was a small hole
Codex:
punched in either flank - one the projectile's entry point, the
Tau
other its exit. The tiny munition had passed through the vehicle
Empire
with such speed that everything within the hull not welded
(4th
down had been sucked out through the exit hole. Including the Edition), p.
crew. We never identified their bodies, for all that remained of
14
them was a red stain upon the ground, extending some twenty
metres from the wreck.
O
Speaker
Quote
Source
O'Mau'tel
The alien is not intrinsically evil.
Fire Warrior (Novel), p. 74
Do not hate him. Pity him his
163
ignorance.
Seek to understand his differences
And acquaint him with his
inadequacies.
Only then will he accept his place
in the Greater Good.
- Sio't meditation supposedly composed
by O'Mau'tel (has since been quietly
dropped)
Shas'el Sa'cea
Or'es, Fire caste
commander
It is not our technology that will enable

us to prevail in this galaxy. It is our
shared sense of honour and
commonality of cause that unites us
and will give us the power to defeat our
enemies.

Codex: Tau Empire (4th Edition),
p. 8
OSharrek,
Commander
Darkwind
See the Guela, how they arrogantly

stride into our trap. We will punish
their belligerence, their ignorant lack of
foresight.

"Ambush - Minor Stratagem",
(saved archive page, dated
February 2011, last accessed 7
October 2015)
O'Shovah
Learn to shorten your reach! If your

foe can come close enough to negate
your striking power, all stratagem is
lost and when all stratagem is lost, the
battle is lost.
- attributed, 757.M41
P
Speaker
Commander
Puretide
Commander
Puretide
Quote
Source
The question of the timing of the commencement of

hostilities is one upon which you must meditate most
deeply. Once your decision is arrived at, it must be pursued
with the utmost energy.
- The Thirty Seventh Meditation on the Way of the Warrior
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p. 40
The strength of your force may be calculated by

multiplying its weight by its velocity. Strive always to
maximize both and victory shall be yours.
- The Forty Second Meditation on the Way of the Warrior
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p. 16
164
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Commander
Shadowsun
To follow any path other than the Tauva is to doom us

all. Only together and with courage and discipline shall
we stand victorious. Fight with fire and courage and
nothing can stand against us.
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p. 46
No expansion without equilibrium.

No conquest without control.
Shas'O T'au
Shi'ur
Pursue success in serenity.
Fire Warrior
(Novel),[Needs
Citation]
And service to the tau'va.

- Sio't meditation supposedly composed by Shas'o T'au Shi'ur
Warlord
Skamork, the
Great Despoiler
They got ded big shooty guns dat'll kill tons of boyz, but if
yer can get near em den you've got a chance. Just gotta
Codex: Tau
make sure you bring loads of boyz, coz you ain't gonna
(3rd Edition),
have a whole lot left when you get close enough ta crump
p. 30
em.
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Aun'el T'au
Tam'ya,
Ethereal caste
It is as we join with others, in a way that only the Tau can,

in shared engagement to the Greater Good, that we find
ourselves able to fully realize our true potential. And that is
the final source of our hopes and intentions.
Codex: Tau
(3rd Edition),
p. 27
Codex: Tau
Empire (4th
Edition), p. 15
Shas'O Sa'cea
Dre'koran Ta'ar
I do not fear death. Death fears ME!

- replying to the Ultramarines' ultimatum prior to the
annihilation of the Tau colony on Nimbosa
[Needs Citation]
U
Speaker
Por'el Tau'n
Ukos, Water
caste
negotiator
Por'ui Dal'yth
Quote
Source
Codex: Tau
I have received your messages, acquainting me that these
(3rd
worlds belong to your Emperor, your master. In return I am to Edition), p.
inform you that the said worlds belong to his Ethereal Majesty,
25
Aun'O Bork'an Vral, my master, by right of settlement. Should Codex: Tau
you wish to gain similar rights you must submit yourselves to Empire (4th
his wisdom as members of the Tau empire.
Edition), p.
39
There are two kinds of conduct the Ethereals will not
Codex: Tau
165
Ukos, water
caste envoy
countenance. The first is a failure to reflect upon what is for

the Greater Good of the Tau race. The second is the deliberate
refusal to follow the path of the Greater Good when it is clear
what it must be.
(3rd
Edition), p.
24
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Kor'O Tau'n Viel
It appears to me that, lacking the sense of unity

that might inform them of their insignificance,
these Guela have come to think that they
might own the stars themselves, even the
spaces in between them. Only by our presence,
I think, might we now convince them
otherwise.
To Unite the Stars PDF

(accessed 2007.03.19)
Shas'el Vorcah of
Kelshan about
Tyranids
Never have I faced a tide of foes that can alter

FFG Teaser of The Great
both strategy and flesh to hasten our downfall.
Devourer - Conquest
Swift as these beasts adapt, we must be swifter,
Expansion (last accessed
for if we fail, the Tau Empire will drown in its
29 June 2015)
own blood.
Shas'O Vorsheem
Our earth-caste brothers have provided us

with the means to destroy our foe, utilize the
sensor array and rain death on the greenskin
invaders.
-Flavour Text
You misunderstand, this is Tau space, despite

what the Guela may claim, and you are
Por'O Dal'yth
welcomed to it as friend. We too have suffered
V'Rok greets the
difficulty with the Oresla, since it seems they
Thurm
wish no unity. We would be honoured to have
Brotherhood
you fight alongside us against this common
during first contact
enemy. You will find it to the benefit of both
with the Demiurg
our peoples. You will find it, I have no doubt, to
be for the greater good.
Strategy Cards for

Planetary Empires
"Sensor Array - Minor
Stratagem", (saved
archive page, dated
February 2011, last
accessed 6 October
2015)
To Unite the Stars PDF

(accessed 2007.03.19)
166
Unattributed
Tome/Text
Quote
Source
Stranger, I bid you greetings in the name of the Tau.

If you are reading this then you will have encountered
one of our messengers drones and are therefore a
spacefaring race. Soon you will see more evidence of us,
this is no cause for alarm.
When you encounter one of our ships or outposts then
welcome it. We have much to offer a faithful friend. We
are five castes, one people. The earth caste build and
Transcript from
manufacture, the air caste pilot and navigate, the water
alien probe
discovered in the caste liase and arbitrate, the fire caste guard our holdings
and defeat our enemies. All are bound to the dream of
Koath System
bringing a new way to the universe.
696.M41
Codex: Tau
(3rd Edition),
p. 66
I hope you will choose to share the culture, technology

and protection of the Tau empire.
The one constant in the universe is change, the wise
adapt.
Believe in our destiny.
The Air Caste
Petition ahead of
the Taun
Campaign
Ours is to be an empire of worlds, not merely of castes or

nations, or races or peoples. To simply control the worlds
which we claim as our own will not be enough we must
control the paths between them also, or be divided, and
so fail.
To Unite the
Stars PDF
(accessed
2007.03.19)
Sio't meditation
12, lesson 4
A well-maintained warrior, is an effective warrior.
Fire Warrior
(Novel), p. 130
A single blade of grass will bend and falter in the lightest

Unknown
wind. But where grass grows in pasture, in field or
meditation shortly
Fire Warrior
savannah; each blade feels but a fraction of the winds
interrupted by a
(Novel), p. 130
full force. It prospers due to the common purpose of its fe
comm call
Unknown
Academy
Instructor giving
a lesson on hand
to hand combat
The first rule of unarmed combat is: dont be unarmed.
Fire Warrior
(Novel), p. 165
Bitter Tau remark
Living armour happens.

- Likened to the human saying "Grox dung happens."
[Needs Citation]
Fire Caste Maxim
A good warrior strikes fast, but retreats faster.
[Needs Citation]
167
Dark Eldar
A
Speaker
Inquisitor
Absolvus
Quote
Source
I will never forget what I saw at Obsidian Station. The bones of five
thousand brave men lay scattered about the winding corridors.
Codex: Dark
Their blood was slick upon the walls and floors of the dormitories.
Eldar (3rd
Their innards were hung from control panels like grotesque
Edition), p.
decorations of some insane celebration. But not a single skull was to
11
be found; taken as sick trophies by these despicable attackers.
B
Speaker
Quote
Source
Dariaq
Bladetongue of
the Pierced Eye
Why do we ride atop these elegant craft? The better to

hear the screams of our prey as we ride them down, to
savour the fear etched on their faces, to taste the
tantalising tang of their blood in the air as an appetiser
before the feast. But most of all we ride them so that the
slaughter may begin as soon as possible.
Warhammer
40,000 5th
Edition Rulebook,
p. 70
Dracon Borkor
Eyes without life, maggot-ridden corpses, mountains of

skulls. These are some of my favourite things.
Codex: Dark
Eldar (3rd
Edition), p. 48
C
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Lord
Czevak
The Dark Eldar see the other inhabitants of the Galaxy as

little more than cattle, livestock that can be brought to bay or
slaughtered at any time. Their fodder, however, is not meat
and muscle, but the anguish and despair of the weak. The
Dark Eldar do indeed drink blood, but also tears, and most
sustaining of all the raw essence of pain that they wring out
of their captives.
Codex: Dark
Eldar (7th
Edition), p. 113
(Reference
pages)
168
D
Speaker
Quote
Source
Archon Drekarth
X'Uskul
Every weapon your prey wields can be turned

against them, given sufficient application of wit.
Codex: Dark Eldar

(7th Edition), p. 9
G
Speaker
Quote
Source
Haemonculus
Gruemenael
My grounds. Where screams are flowers, and

pain their fragrance.
Dawn of War:
Soulstorm
I
Speaker
Spiritseer
Iyanna
Arienal
Quote
Source
The scions of the Dark City would never admit that the unceasing
hunger at their core is what drives them to such heights of cruelty.
Instead, they maintain that they act only upon their own desires.
Codex:
Some have even managed to convince themselves of this. In truth, Dark Eldar
unless our cousins in the webway feed upon a constant diet of
(7th
extreme emotion they will slowly wither away, leaving naught but a
Edition)
soulless husk. We of the craftworlds deny all such urges, and in
p.94
doing so become less than ourselves. Perhaps it is those that we left
to perish are the lucky ones.
K
Speaker
Quote
Source
Kaelith,
Helliarch of the
Scythewing
Gang
I call Heads! Sever their ugly, stinking heads!

The one with the red helmet is mine!
Codex: Dark Eldar (7th

Edition), p. 26
Karnesh,
Murder-lord of
the Cult of the
Screaming Soul
Clad in dusk and robed in darkness we strike,

our coming the terror of our foes.

card Night Fight - Minor
2015)
High Lord
Khouron Imperial
Commander of
Astherax
Spawned in the darkest pits of the universe, the

piratical Eldar are a curse upon all races of
the galaxy. For untold thousands of years they
have preyed upon us, stealing forth from the
shadows and dark places on their raids of
terror and violence; massacring or capturing
all whose paths they cross. That they are
utterly evil and inhuman is without question.
Codex: Dark Eldar (3rd

Edition), p. 50
169
Klaivex
Khyrassos, the
Brotherhood of
the Void
Kraegeth of the
Slaughtered
Heart
The blade that I wield is an extension of my

self, as I am an extension of my blade. We both
thirst for blood. We both seek only murder.
Only in death do we find purpose in life.

Edition), p. 97
How typical that the humans should rely upon

crude technology to protect them.
Apocalypse, p. 169
How fitting that we, the Dark Eldar should kill

them where they feel safest.
Archon K'shaic
You think to challenge me, pitiful human? I,
of the Kabal of the bane of empires. the father of pain? Let me
the Bladed Lotus
educate you; I need a new pet...

Edition), p. 34
M
Speaker
Quote
Source
Mandrake They cower. We carve. Dawn of War: Soulstorm
R
Speaker
Urien Rakarth,
Master Haemonculus
Quote
Source
Fetch me another plaything. This one seems to

have broken.
Codex: Dark Eldar

We learnt long ago that the inscrutable universe

turns upon an axis of suffering, because pain is
inevitable.
Imperial Armour Apocalypse, p. 93
Pain is the only universal constant. Pain is all. It

is the key to creation and destruction both. Thus
does he who masters pain become a god.
Codex: Dark Eldar

T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Kilarq Tongueblade
of the Lacerated Eye
We own this night, just as we own the fear that runs

in your veins. You may think your numbers protect
you, but we shall feast upon your souls before the
dawn!
Apocalypse
Reload, p. 71
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Skorn
Though the artifices of evil are many, a bolter round kills just as
assuredly.
Codex:
Dark
Eldar (3rd
Edition),
170
p. 34
Lord
Sarnak of
the Kabal of
the Black
Heart
Lord
Sussarkh
Death? You want death? I'm afraid that would be far too boring.
Codex:
Dark
Eldar (5th
Edition),
p. 35
Never had so much blood drenched the arena. How could this be
followed? The crowd cried out for more. There could be no end to
the spectacle now. Then Lelith herself strode into the arena. The
crowd hushed at the very sight of her beauty and elegance. Her
flesh bared as if to taunt the blade to draw her blood. Her hair loose
Codex:
as if to tempt her adversary to grip it and to strike the death blow.
Dark
This was the way she liked to perform: so calm, so confident, so
Eldar (3rd
cold. The crowd gasped as she brandished her chosen weapons: a
Edition),
flashing of ice-cold silver, the kiss of death. Then the aliens were
p. 39
released into the ring. Not one, nor two, but ten assailants at once.
Lelith danced with them, gifting each with a single choice wound.
The crowded roared their approval, the entertainment would last
long into the bloody evening!
- recollections of Lelith, Mistress of Death
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Haemonculus Vaeghex
of the Coven of the
Thirteen Scars
Kill them, my children, but make it slow...
Codex: Dark
Eldar (7th
Edition), p. 37
Archon Vraesque
Malidrach of the
Kabal of the Flayed
Skull
We are the masters of the shadowed sky. Not for us a

grubbing crawl through the mud and filth of battle.
Leave that to the lesser races. We shall only set foot
upon the soil these vermin call home in order to place
our bladed heels on their throats.
Codex: Dark
Eldar (7th
Edition), p. 42
Death is my meat; terror my wine.
Codex: Dark
Eldar (3rd
Edition), p. 31
'BEG FOR MERCY!, Not that it will do you any

good.
Dawn of War:
Soulstorm
Asdrubael Vect,
Supreme Lord of the
Kabal of the Black
Heart
Y
Speaker
Quote
Source
Ybdriss Khael, Venom

Steersman of the Kabal
of the Flayed Skull.
We are swift, and we are lethal. We are a poisoned

dagger thrust into the heart of the foe. We are the
hidden blade, the strike so sudden that the enemy
falls before they ever know they are under attack.
Codex: Dark
Eldar (7th
Edition), p. 87
171
Z
Speaker
Quote
Lord Zuol, leader of the Despair

You are doomed, doomed, I tell you!
Bringers of the Kabal of the Black For tonight we will feast on your very
Heart
souls!
Source
Codex: Dark Eldar
(3rd Edition), p. 2
Unattributed 7
Quote
Source
I am truly disappointed that the cruel fate has placed us in this position, such
that I really have no choice other than to unleash my warriors against your
population centers. If only you would lay aside these foolish hopes of protecting
your resources and return to your homes and families, much bloodshed and woe
could be avoided.
Yet... there is still time, any who leave now will be spared and I give you my word
that they will be granted free passage through the wastes. This offer of amnesty
will stand for two of your hours before the terror begins anew. I can only hope
that you consider your position carefully. Send forth a representative to discuss
further terms if you wish, or several if you cannot trust one of your number to
speak for the rest. I feel sure that all can be... accommodated.
- Comm recording discovered at the Delta 9 massacre
Codex: Dark
Eldar (3rd
Edition), p.
36
172
Tyranid
Speaker
Quote
Source
Across the heavens the flotilla of bio-ships stretched out, impelled

by instinct to hibernate again until new prey was found, new
resources could be plundered. In their wake was left a bare rock
orbiting a star, scoured of every organic particle, stripped of all but
Unknown
the most basic elements. Nothing was left of the farming world of
Langosta III, there were no testaments to the humans who had once
lived there. Now all that was left was an airless asteroid, the
unmarked death place of three million people.
They are coming! I feel them scratching inside my mind, scratching,
Unknown screaming, running, so many - so, so many voices. They are coming
for us - flesh, body and soul!
Codex:
Tyranids
(3rd
Edition),
[Needs
Citation]
Codex:
Tyranids
(4th
Edition),
page 66
A
Speaker
Quote
Source
Sergeant Learchus
Abantes,
Ultramarines 4th
Company
They come at you in a tide of creatures so thick a

blind man could score a hit ten times out of ten. Any
man who can hold a gun can hit a tyranid. But no
matter how many you kill with your guns, there will
always be more, and it is our job to teach the men
how to fight the ones that reach our lines.
Warriors of
Ultramar (Novel)
by Graham
McNeill, Chapter
Six
I don't know where they come from. It seems highly

unlikely that they evolved naturally into what they
Space Hulk
are now - impossible, given what we know about
(Board Game),
Jarv Advent, Senior
evolution. Perhaps they are some kind of
1989 (First
Xenobiologist,
bioweapon, created millennia ago by madmen for Edition), Missions
Inquisitorial Institute
some long-forgotten war. If so, I suspect that their
and Background
of Proctos Minor (on
creators soon came to regret their creation. Or
Genestealers)
book, [Needs
perhaps they come straight from the warp. Possibly
Citation]
the Lords of Chaos themselves cast them out
because they were too unpleasant.
173
They have only one purpose and there is nothing

they will not do to accomplish this, no matter how
vile or loathsome it might be. These abominations
mean to destroy everything proud and noble,
everything we hold dear and have fought so long to
achieve.
Inquisitor Agmar
The more I learn about these aliens, the more I

come to understand what drives them, the more I
Codex Imperialis,
hate them. I hate them for what they are and for
[Needs Citation]
what they may one day become. I hate them not
because they hate us but because they are incapable
of good, honest, human hatred.
It is well known that destroying the more intelligent
creatures in the swarm is essential to stop a Tyranid
advance. Training in recognition and fire discipline
is of some help in identifying the best targets but
the chaos and confusion of the battlefield make it
difficult for troops to pick out their targets amidst
the swarming mass of creatures. Ultimately it has
proven best to direct fire at the largest Tyranids in
sight and pray to the Emperor that some of them
are the leaders. - Halting the Abomination
Aun'shi of the Tau

Empire
Codex Imperialis,
p. 90
Titan II:
Vipaporious,
short-story
Madness Lies
[Needs Citation]
How ironic it is that as fast as we spread progress

Codex: Tyranids
and hope throughout the galaxy, the Tyranids
(4th Edition), page
spread death and despair. Only united can we hope
43
to stand against them.
C
Speaker
Quote
To think that Tyranids are mindless beasts is a grave

mistake. When you fight Tyranids you face not only those
Marneus
before you on the battlefield, but the untold thousands which
Augustus Calgar,
seek to surround you, which attack your supporting units
Chapter Master of
and destroy your supply lines in perfect synchronicity. These
the Ultramarines
aliens have shown evidence of both tactics and strategy that
speaks of a far worse threat than that posed by a mere beast.
Source
Codex:
Tyranids
(5th
Edition),
page 52
Chaplain Ortan
Cassius,
Ultramarines
The blasphemy of the Tyranids is such that only one solution
Master of Sanctity
is acceptable. Extermination.
Codex:
Space
Marines
(4th
Edition),
page 48
We must scour them from the stars before they do the same
to us.
Codex:
Tyranids
(4th
174
Edition),
page 43
Inquisitor Czevak
There is a cancer eating at the Imperium. With each decade

it advances deeper, leaving drained, dead worlds in its wake.
This horror, this abomination, has thought and purpose that
functions on an unimaginable, galactic scale and all we can
do is try to stop the swarms of bioengineered monsters it
unleashes upon us by instinct. We have given the horror a
name to salve our fears; we call it the Tyranid race, but if is
aware of us at all it must know us only as Prey.
Codex:
Tyranids
(5th
Edition),
pg. 7
D
Speaker
Major Ias'r
Dashour,
892nd
Tallarn
Desert
Raiders
Quote
Source
The tyranids are singular in purpose. We are born to serve

the Aba Aba Mushira, but our lives are one of distraction.
Not them, they are bred with one aspiration, and it is an
aspiration without diversion, without division. They are
remorseless, they are driven and they fear nothing. Why
would they? They are reborn again and again, ready to fight
and die, and continue on.
Desert Raiders
(Novel) by Lucien
Soulban - Hammer
of the Emperor
(Omnibus), Chapter
7, p. 627
Any man can oath-swear his fealty to the Emperor, but

whether he lives or dies by that oath is what makes him true.
I have faced down death before and never once hesitated in
my allegiance to the Golden Throne and the High Lords of
Terra. I see the same in the tyranids, as perverted as their
cause may be. I cannot help but admire them, for if I can
weather my faith against theirs and stand unbowed, then I
have proven my loyalty to the Emperor. I ask that I die
strong.
Desert Raiders
(Novel) by Lucien
Soulban - Hammer
of the Emperor
(Omnibus), Chapter
7, p. 627-628
G
Speaker
Magos
Biologis
Alder
Garrick
Quote
Source
The Tyranids are without a doubt the most rapidly evolving Codex: Tyranids
creatures in the galaxy. The Magos Biologis of Mars have
(4th Edition),
observed developmental DNA leaps between broods originating
page 5
from different hive fleets that would take other beasts millions
of years to achieve. It appears that the Tyranid 'Norn Queens'
or primogenitor organisms aboard the hive ships are capable of
modifying their progeny in response to the environment and
life-forms they encounter. Newly harvested genetic codes are
assimilated, the prey's defensive measures are examined, and
improved creatures are bio-engineered to overcome that
resistance. Over time the myriad improvements to the hive
fleet's genepool are melded with others, strengthening the
175
entire race.
A case in point is to observe the degree of integration of the
Tyranid's symbiote weapons. At first these were relatively
crude and were carried and employed, however distastefully,
by the creatures that used them like a gun or a sword. In later
encounters Tyranids have exhibited, more and more frequently,
weaponry meshed directly into the creatures carrying them.
Now it has become impossible to tell where the Tyranid warrior
ends and its weapon symbiotes begin. I think we can be assured
that the Norn Queens will continue to work tirelessly towards
more and more perfectly adapted for killing the inhabitants of
this galaxy just as they have in others before ours. Simply put,
over the coming centuries we may be out-evolved to the point
of extinction.
Inquisitor
Grael
Genestealers are perfectly bio-engineered infiltrators that rove

ahead of the Tyranid hive fleets seeking rich feeding grounds.
These deadly creatures work by implanting and subverting
members of the host species, striving to dominate their victims
through alien cunning or terrifying violence as the situation
requires.
Eternal
Damnation
(Graphic
Novel), shortstory
Testament,
[Needs Citation]
H
Speaker
Excerpted from a
missive sent by
Commissar General
Vortigus Hornth,
Acting Warmaster;
Diatan Sector,
Ultima Segmentum.
285/988.M41
Quote
Source
We retreat, we fall back, we make strategic withdrawals, we Codex:

consolidate, we evacuate. When in the name of all that's
Tyranids
holy are we going to fight back against the Tyranid threat?
(4th
Events at Ichar IV and Macragge have proved that the hive Edition),
fleets can be stopped, but where are the armies and the
page 44
ships to stop them again? Why have the Adeptus
Mechanicus ceased sending us munitions and weapons from
their forge worlds? Do they believe they can stand alone and
seek only to protect their own domains? These are
important questions which demand answers at the highest
level and, in my personal opinion, the punishment of those
responsible - assignment to penal regiments in the path of
the Tyranid advance would seem most appropriate.
Believe me, sirs, I can appreciate that outposts and minor
stations cannot be held against the infernal numbers of
these aliens without an unconscionable expenditure of force.
I have seen with my own eyes the results of such folly. I can
also appreciate that the strategy of Holy Terra is not mine to
question, but I fear that the perspective gained from
viewing reports from thousands of light years away belies
176
the seriousness of the situation here on the eastern fringe.
K
Speaker
Inquisitor
Lord
Kryptman
Quote
Source
Tyranids are creatures from our darkest nightmares. But

remember this: they can bleed, and they can die.
- during a Council to plan the defense of Tarsis Ultra
Warriors of
Ultramar (Novel)
by Graham
McNeill, Ch. 4
An alien threat has risen from beyond the abyss, a swarm

so vast that it blots out the stars. This horror fights neither
for power nor territory, but rather to fee a hunger so
insatiable that it will eventually devour the entire galaxy.
Codex: Tyranids
(5th Edition), Back
Cover
M
Speaker
Enforcer
Maitland,
Epsilon Hive
Quote
Source
The torchlight showed up a trail of blood leading to the back

Codex:
room, so like a fool I followed it. Lying in the darkness was
Tyranids (4th
one of the smaller ones, its jaws distended around the torso of
Edition), page
what I assume used to be the father. He was still convulsing.
40
In my horror, I shoot the victim first. Big mistake.
S
Speaker
Quote
Source
Hojan Storall,
Techomagos of the
Adeptus Mechanicus
I know you may find the Tyranids

physically repellent to look at but
believe me, you don't want to let them
out of your sight.
Eternal Damnation (Graphic

Novel), short-story Such
Horrors, [Needs Citation]
T
Speaker
Quote
Source
Sergeant Torias
Telion,
Ultramarines
10th Company
A new Tyrant joined the fray and, in an eyeblink, the whole

character of the swarm changed. The ravening berserkerspirit that had driven the Tyranids onto the ridge was gone as
if it had never existed. Left in its place was something cannier
and infinitely more worrisome. It was then that I knew the
battle to be lost.
- on the Battle for Macragge
Codex:
Tyranids
(5th
Edition),
pg. 13
Chief Librarian
Varro Tigurius
of the
Ultramarines
As I looked into its dead black eyes, I saw the terrible

sentience it had in place of a soul. Behind that was the steel
will of its leader. Further still I could feel its primogenitor
coldly assessing me from the void. And looking back from the
Codex:
Tyranids
(5th
Edition),
177
deepest recesses of the alien's mind I perceived what I can only

describe as an immortal hunger. We can slay the Tyranids on
our worlds, blast their fleets from the space, grind their armies
to torn and ruined fragments. But their hunger? That is
beyond our ability to slay.
Sergeant
The thing that scares me most of all is that it burst out from
Thresher, 11th
the jungle directly in front of our ambush position. It had
Catachan Jungle killed Jensen and Lucca before we knew what was happening.
Fighters
Nothing that large should be able to move like that.
pg. 13
Codex:
Tyranids
(4th
Edition),
page 38
U
Speaker
Quote
Source
Lexmechanic Ursis,
Belis Corona
To think of these creatures as beasts is a grave

mistake. We have observed their vanguard
organisms herd prey like cattle into the path of the
main swarms. We have seen expend them tides of
lesser beasts so that their enemies have no
ammunition left when their leaders attack, and
armoured columns channeled into narrow defiles
where but one of their assault beasts can tear
through an entire tank company. Only yesterday we
received a pict-capture of several platoons falling
back into the keep of Gnex Bastion, only to be
trapped and slaughtered by burrowing organisms
that burst from the ground. These creatures have
shown evidence of a tactical acumen that speaks of a
far worse threat than that posed by a mere beast.
Codex:
Tyranids (4th
Edition), page
15
Lieutenant-Colonel
Uskra, Imperial
Guard 13th/23rd
Tiger Lizards
When you fight Tyranids you face not only those

before you on the field of battle but the untold
thousands which seek to surround you, which attack
your supporting units and destroy your supply lines
in perfect synchronicity.
Warhammer
40,000
Compendium,
[Needs Citation]
V
Speaker
Quote
Source
Inquisitor
Amberley
Vail, Ordo
Xenos
-Are any of these people available for questioning?

-Not unless you want to stick your head down a tyranid's
throat and shout "anyone at home?"
-to Ciaphas Cain, on Periremunda
Duty Calls (Novel)

by Sandy Mitchell,
Chapter TwentyThree
The last
words of
Magos
Varnak
We cannot live through this. Mankind cannot live through

this. In a single day they have covered the surface of this
planet with a flood of living blades and needle-fanged
mouths. Kill one and ten take its place. If they are truly
without number then our race is doomed to a violent death
Codex: Tyranids
(4th Edition), pg.
25
178
before every shred of our civilization is scoured away by a

force more voracious than the fires of hell themselves!
Death! By the Machine God, Death is here!
X
Speaker
Quote
Source
Xereth, Sorcerer of
the Black Legion
This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to

enslave. The gods will not be denied their
prize.
Codex: Tyranids (4th

Edition), page 45
179
Thoughts of the Day
A
Letter
A
Thought for the day
Source
A broad mind lacks focus.
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 120
A coward always seeks compromise
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 221
A fine mind is a blessing of the Emperor - It should not be

cluttered with trivialities.
Codex: Necrons (3rd

Edition), page 32
A hundred thousand worlds, ten hundred thousand wars.

There is no respite, there is nowhere to hide. Across the galaxy
there is only war.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 39
A logical argument must be dismissed with absolute

conviction!
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 232
A mind without purpose will wander in dark places
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 61
A moment of laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy.
Codex: Dark Angels

(3rd Edition), page 5
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant

heretic
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 76
A single thought of heresy can blight a lifetime of faithful duty.
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 125
A small mind is a tidy mind.
Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader, page
32;
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 4;
Warhammer 40,000
180
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 205
Codex: Imperial
page 60;
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 6
A suspicious mind is a healthy mind
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 47
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his

strongest weapon.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 50
A weapon cannot substitute for zeal
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 217
Abhor the Night, it is the Light that Endures!
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 120
Accept your lot!
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 193
Across the void of space men live as they have lived for
millennia upon the sand, rock and soil of worlds bathed in the
light of alien suns. So is Humanity's seed cast far and wide
beyond the knowledge of Man, to thrive bitterly in the
darkness, to take root and cling with robust and savage
determination.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 93
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem

formidable, but an unshakeable faith in the Immortal
Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 133
All Daemons are Falsehood. They are lies given the shape of
creatures by the fell power of Chaos.
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (3rd
Edition, 1st Codex),
page 39
All hail the martyrs! On their blood is our Imperium founded,

in their remembrance do we honour ourselves.
All mortal life is folly that does not feed the spirit
Warhammer 40,000
5th Edition
Rulebook, page 109
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
181
Rulebook, page 185

Codex: Dark Angels
(3rd Edition), page
20;
All souls cry out for salvation.
Codex: Space
Marines (4th
Edition), page 58
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
Codex: Craftworld
Eldar (3rd Edition),
page 8
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and

unguarded.
Warhammer 40,000
2nd Edition
Rulebook, page 47
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and

unguarded.
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition
Rulebook, page 90
An unprotected soul can no more cross the storms of the warp Codex: Necrons (3rd
than a heretic can bear the gaze of the Inquisition
Edition), page 10
Analysis is the bane of conviction
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 179
Appeasement is a curse
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition
Rulebook, page 82
As the mind to the body so the soul to the spirit, as death to the Warhammer 40,000
mortal man so failure to the immortal, such is the price of all
4th Edition
ambition.
Rulebook, page 226
B
Letter
B
Thought for the day
Source
Be courageous and bold, be humble before your masters,

Warhammer 40,000 3rd
lead with valour! These things above all others will be of
Edition Rulebook, page 84
use when your time comes to die.
Be grateful of your Master's favour!

Edition Rulebook, page
238
Be Pure.
Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader, page 74
Be strong in your ignorance.

182
Be vigilant and strong. The Emperor knows what evil

lurks in the vacillation of a weak fool.

Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader, page 182;
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.

119
Between the stars the ancient unseen enemies of mankind

wait and hunger. Every voyage into the nothing is a
Codex Imperialis, page 7
confrontation with horror, with the implacable things of
the warp, and with man's own innermost fears.
Big guns never tire.
Imperial Armour Volume

One - Imperial Guard and
Imperial Navy, pg. 98
Blessed are the Gun Makers.

34;
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt

51;
Blind faith is a just cause.

Brave are they who know everything yet fear nothing

218
Burn the heretic
Codex: Black Templars

(4th Edition), page 32
Burn the Heretic!

Kill the Mutant!
Purge the Unclean!

68;
Burn the Unclean with the fires of Purity.

183

By the manner of our death are we judged.

Imperial Navy, page 234
By the manner of their death we shall know them.

C
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Call no man happy until he is dead.

Codex: Black
Templars (4th
Edition), page 12;
Carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the

shadows
Warhammer 40,000
3rd Edition Rulebook,
page 50
Warhammer 40,000
Cast out the mutant, the traitor, the heretic. For every enemy
3rd Edition Rulebook,
without there are a hundred within.
page 93
Cease and repent!
Warhammer 40,000
4th Edition Rulebook,
page 196
Cease purpose and die.
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 93
Compromise is akin to treachery
Warhammer 40,000
page 19
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with

Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all Warhammer 40,000:
obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty Compendium, page 85
and Purity.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with
Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcomes all Codex: Space Marines
obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty (4th Edition), page 39
and Purity.
Contemplation is the womb of treachery
Warhammer 40,000
page 230
Curse now the death in vain.

184
D
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition),
page 20;
Damnation is eternal.
Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition

Rulebook, page 132
Dark dreams lie upon the heart

Rulebook, page 83
Death brings its own reward.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue

Trader, page 75
Death is honor

Trader, page 78
Death is the only answer

Trader, page 73
Edition), page 34;
Death is the servant of the righteous.

Rulebook, page 198
Defile not his presence

Trader, page 115
Defile the Mutant.

Trader, pages 82, 87
Destroy, destroy, destroy!
Imperial Armour Volume One Imperial Guard and Imperial

Navy, pg. 240
Dib dib dib, dob dob dob.

Trader, page 175
Do not question the Will of the Emperor!

Rulebook, page 259
Do Not Wait for Death.

Trader, page 85
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.

Trader, page 113
Doubt is a sign of weakness

185
Edition), page 27;

Rulebook, page 235
Drink deep of victory and remember the fallen.
Codex: Blood Angels (3rd

Edition), page 7
Duty prevails

Rulebook, page 258
E
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Rulebook, page 215;
Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life.

Rulebook, page 95
Every human life is a spark in the darkness. It flares

for a moment, catches the eye, and is gone forever. A Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition
retinal after-image that fades and is obscured
Rulebook, page 77
forever by newer, brighter lights.
Every lone spirit doubts his strength

Rulebook, page 177
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.

Trader, page 93
Trader;
Examine your thoughts!

Rulebook, page 223
Edition), page 20;
Excuses are the refuge of the weak

Rulebook, page 199
186
Exist for the Emperor.

Trader, page 87 (corrected
spelling from "Emporer" to
"Emperor")
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter

truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a
dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition

Rulebook, page 70
Faith grows from the barrel of a gun.
Imperial Armour Volume One Imperial Guard and Imperial

Navy, pg. 72
Faith, Hate and Ignorance
Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition),

page 17
Faith. Honour. Vigilance.
Codex: Dark Angels (3rd

Edition), page 24
Faith in the Emperor is its own reward
Codex: Assassins (2nd

Edition), page 8
Faith is the strongest shield.
The Traitor's Hand (Novel),

chapter 7

Edition), page 39;
Faith is your shield.

Rulebook, page 51
Rulebook, page 100;
Faith without deeds is worthless.

Edition), page 20
Fear is the Mind Killer.

Trader, page 78
Fear not the creatures of the jungle but those that

lurk within your mind.
Codex: Catachans (3rd

Edition), page 22
Fear the shadows; despise the night. There are

horrors that no man can face and survive.

Edition), page 11
Foolish are those who fear nothing, yet claim to

know everything

Rulebook, page 214
187

Trader, page 238
For a warrior the only crime is cowardice.

Trader, page 72;
For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die alone, Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition
unsung, and unremembered.
Rulebook, page 159;
Rulebook, page 121
For those who seek perfection - there can be no rest
this side of the grave

Trader
Edition), page 9;
For those who seek perfection there can be no rest

this side of the grave
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.

Rulebook, page 96
Edition), page 74
G
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Glory in death is life

Eternal
Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard and Imperial

Navy, page 136
H
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook,

page 216
Hard work conquers everything.

page 253
Hate enriches

page 7
Hatred is our surest weapon.
Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial

Guard and Imperial Navy, page 154
Hatred is the Emperor's greatest gift to

humanity.
Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook,

page 117;
page 67;
Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), page
188
66
He bears the weight of Mankind's ills

Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition), page
32;
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He

who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
Crusade for Armageddon (Novel), preprologue

Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition),
page 44;
Heresy grows from idleness

page 220
Heresy must be met with hatred.

page 135
His will be done.

His Word is Our Strength.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, page

86
Honor your Chapter.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, page

84
Honour, Duty & Obedience.
Codex: Dark Eldar (3rd Edition), page 44
Hope is the beginning of unhappiness.
Warhammer 40,000: Compendium, page

71;
page 95;
page 85;
page 53
Codex: Imperial Guard (4th Edition), page
59;
Hope is the first step on the road to

disappointment.

page 52;
page 231
189
I
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Trader, page 28;
If a job's worth doing it's worth dying for!

Edition Rulebook, page 64;
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit

shall eat at the Emperor's table

If you cannot speak well of your Master, be silent!

Ignorance is a virtue

(3rd Edition, 2nd Codex),
page 81
Ignorance is bliss

Ignorance is your best defence.

In an hour of Darkness a blind man is the best guide.

In an age of Insanity look to the madman to show the
way.

In the blazing furnace of battle we shall forge anew the

iron will of yet a stronger race.
In the darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age
of Madness look to the madman to show the way.
Information Is Power

Edition), page 38
Edition), page 15;
Innocence proves nothing

Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun.
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 25
Intellect is a mask for traitors

190

Conquest of Armageddon
(Novel), chapter 21;
Intolerance is a blessing

It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for

yourself.

Edition), page 60
It is not in 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.

Trader, page 35
It is the bitter tears that the Gods weep that bind us to

their hearts

It is not the Horror of War that troubles me but the

Unseen Horrors of Peace.

K
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Kill the mutant
Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), page 33
Know No Fear.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, page 82

Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 1st
Codex), page 31;
Know the mutant; kill the

mutant.
Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), page 54;

Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook, page 38
Know thine enemy
Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition), page 20
Knowledge is half the battle.
Imperial Armour - Imperial Vehicles for

Knowledge is power, hide it well. Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook, page 79
191
Knowledge is to be feared!
Know your destination before

you set out
Codex: Assassins (2nd Edition), page 5
Know your duty!
L
Letter
L
Thought for the day
Source
Labour long in his sight.
Imperial Armour Volume One

- Imperial Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 146
Leniency is a sign of weakness!

Let faith protect your mind and metal your flesh
Imperial Armour - Imperial

Vehicles for Warhammer
40,000, pg. 12
Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the

tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles,
and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty
and Purity.

Navy, page 193
Edition), page 41;
Life is a prison, death a release

Life is a prison, death shall be my release

Trader, page 119
Life is the Emperor's currency, spend it well

Edition), page 48
Listen not to the alien, look not upon the alien, speak
not unto the alien!

Look to your wargear!

Look upon the Emperor's Works and tremble!

Losses are acceptable. Failure is not.

Navy, page 192
192
M
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Mankind stands on the shoulders of the

Martyred

page 171
May the Emperor's Wrath forever cleanse Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook,
our souls
page 1
page 204;
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), page

69
page 117;
My armour is contempt.

page 32;
page 68
N
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Negotiation is surrender

Rulebook, page 68
Codex: Dark Angels (3rd
Edition), page 5;
Never forget, never forgive.

Edition), page 8
Rulebook, page 107;
No army is big enough to conquer the galaxy. But

faith alone can overturn the universe.

Rulebook, page 108
No man died in His service that died in vain.

Edition), page 22
No man died in the Emperor's service that died in

vain

Rulebook, page 197
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in

193
vain.
Rulebook, page 120
No Mercy. No Remorse. Just Kill.

Trader, page 86
No pity! No remorse! No fear!

Edition), page 37
Edition), page 28;
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels

of guilt.

Rulebook, page 244
Not Even The Dead Know The End Of War
Codex Craftworld Eldar (3rd

Edition), page 4
Nothing Can Hide From The Wrath Of The

Emperor.

Edition), page 18
O
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Obedience is blind.
Imperial Armour Volume One Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy,

pg. 142
Obedience is not enough.

pg. 78
Official! The graves of wariors who have given

their lives for the Emperor now outnumber the
stars themselves.

Rulebook, page 65
Rulebook, page 74;
Only in death does duty end.
Codex Necrons (3rd Edition) page

49;
Edition), page 73;
Rulebook, page 66
Only the awkward question; only the foolish ask

twice.

Edition), page 32
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper.

Edition), page 78
Only the insane have strength enough to
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader,

194
prosper;
only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper.

Only those who prosper may truly judge what is
sane.
page 69
Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition
Rulebook, page 93;
Edition), page 65
Only the insane prosper

Rulebook, page 53
Only The Lost Understand True Terror

Edition), page 22
Only those that follow the guiding light of the

Emperor may save their souls.

Rulebook, page 108
P
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair

an illusion of the mind
Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), page

17
page 81;
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair

is an illusion of the mind.

page 13
Peace is Hell.
Perseverance and silence are the highest

virtues

page 208
Pity ye Not!

Place your trust in the Emperor's steel
Imperial Armour - Imperial Vehicles for

Power resides in the will of the

Righteous

page 73
Praise the sun that brings the dawn

Of our final doom.
Prayer cleanses the soul, but pain
Warhammer 40,000: Compendium, page 80

Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), page 4;
195

page 10;
page 192
cleanses the body
Pure in body, pure in heart
Codex: Tau (3rd Edition), page 51

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, page 80;
Purge the unclean.
Codex: Blood Angels (3rd Edition), page 1;

Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), page 18
Purge those who are unclean
R
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Rulebook, page 81;
Reason begets doubt; Doubt begets heresy.

Rulebook, page 2
Reason is the cloak of Traitors

Rulebook, page 169
Rejoice in service!

Rulebook, page 176
Revere the Omnissiah, for it is the source

of all power.
Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition), page 54

page 49;
Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise

Rulebook, page 183
S
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Save & Destroy.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader,

page 73
196
Seek no reward but the satisfaction of your

Master!

Rulebook, page 10
Seek honour as you act, and you will know no

fear.

page 248
Serve the Emperor today - tomorrow you may be

dead!

Rulebook, page 21
Rulebook, page 68;
Serve the Emperor today, tomorrow you may be

dead.

Edition), page 11;
Rulebook, page 89
Sins hidden in the heart turn all into decay.

Rulebook, page 133
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest

survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed
upon the altar of battle.

Rulebook, page 78
Sorrow awaits the foolhardy
Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition),

page 4
Speed the bolt that brings the end

Of enemy and friend.
Warhammer 40,000: Compendium,

page 76
Step not from the path of the Emperor.
Codex: Catachans (3rd Edition),

page 21
Study the alien, the better to kill it
Codex: Eldar (3rd Edition), page 3
Submit to His will

Edition), page 24
Book of the Astronomican[Needs
Citation];
Success is commemorated. Failure merely

remembered.
Success is measured in blood; yours or your

enemy's.

Rulebook, page 79;
Rulebook, page 200;
Edition), page 27
197
Edition), page 52;

Rulebook, page 15
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested
from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.

Rulebook, page 123
T
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
The Age of Battle has begun.
The fires of war burn brightly from star to star. Everywhere

the fortresses of Man are steeped in blood and ancient
enemies appear from the darkness. Sensing weakness they Warhammer 40,000 5th
gather for the kill. They know as we know that night
approaches and all mortal life shall be extinguished. We
116
know, as they cannot, that there shall be a new dawn and a
new day when we will rise and they will be driven into the
darkness forever.
The Alien fails because it canot embrace the Emperor.

138
(4th Edition), page 16;
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Imperium.

67;
237
The burden of failure is the most terrible punishment of all

8
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse,

trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring,
unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
Codex Imperialis, page

82
The cosmos cries out for salvation
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 89
The Dark Gods laugh at the foolishness of meek appeasers

198
233
The difference between heresy and treachery is ignorance

116;
201
The dead watch over us and guide us.
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 33
The dissident invites only retribution

25
The Emperor asks only that you hate

168;
The Emperor asks only that you obey

58
The Emperor bestows upon us the gift of intolerance.

139
The Emperor commands; We act.

186
The Emperor is our guiding light, a beacon of hope for

humanity in a galaxy of darkness. As we serve him, he is our Edition Rulebook, page
greatest servant. As we pray to him, his thoughts are only
112
for us. And in the dark when the shadows threaten, the
Emperor is with us, in spirit and in fact.
The Emperor Knows.
Warhammer 40,000:
(corrected spelling
from "Emporer" to
"Emperor")
The Emperor knows, the Emperor is watching

199
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and

diplomas but by your scars.

270
The Emperor's mercy is neither to forgive nor to forget but

to accept.

93
The Emperor's judgement is a blessing for the Faithful.

96
Codex: Dark Angels
(3rd Edition), page 21;
The end justifies the means.
The ends always justify the means.

(4th Edition) (???),
page 61
109
The enemies of the Emperor fear many things.

They fear discovery, defeat, despair and death.
Yet there is one thing they fear above all others.
They fear the wrath of the Space Marines!


The foolish man puts his trust in luck, the wise man puts his
trust in the Emperor.
5
The future is trivia.
Imperial Armour
Volume One - Imperial
Guard and Imperial
Navy, pg. 104
The greatest man is but a ripple on the surface of space
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 76
The guilt of heresy weighs heavy on the soul.

228
The justice of your action is measured by the strength of

your conviction.

234
The keenest blade is righteous hatred.

95
200
The loyal servant learns to love the lash

39
The man that sings the Emperor's praise will speak a

blessing all his days.

101
The man who has nothing can still have faith

243
The Martyr's grave is the foundation of the Imperium

39
The Martyr's grave is the keystone of the Imperium

172
The Mighty have no room for doubt

174
The mortal burden carried dutifully to its destination is the

Emperor's greatest praise.

122

The most deviant mind is often concealed in an unblemished
body.
112
The Mutant bears his heresy on the outside, the Traitor
hides it in his Soul.

122
The only crime is cowardice.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 222
The only reaction to treachery is vengeance.

122
The Priesthood of Mars maintain our Emperor's throne.

Thusly do they underpin the Imperium entire.

110
The reward for treachery is retribution

59;
201
17
16;
The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

113
The road to purity is drenched in the blood of the martyred.

The seed of heresy rests in the minds of reasonable men

173
The strength of Humanity is the Emperor
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 158
The traitors hand lies closer than you think.
The Traitor's Hand

(Novel), chapter 10
The truly heroic trust in blind faith.

261
The truly wise are always afraid

222
The truth is terrible to bear.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 197
The universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will

not be missed...

289
The wage of negligence is utter destruction.
Codex: Armageddon
(3rd Edition), page 5;
Conquest of
Armageddon (Novel),
pre-prologue
The weapon slays where the hand wills
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 188
202
Serve the Emperor!
The will of the Emperor is the might of the Imperium

63
33;
The wise man learns from the deaths of others.

The word of the Emperor is the rule of the Imperium

3
There are no answers. Only Death.
Warhammer 40,000:
There are no walls strong enough to protect the enemies of

Mankind.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 170
There is no cowardice in faith

257
There is no fear in conviction

256
There is no greater glory than a lifetime of dutiful service

92
There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of

carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Codex: Chaos Space

Marines (3rd Edition,
1st Codex), page 2;
185
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.
Warhammer 40,000:
There is no salvation without suffering.
Codex: Dark Angels

203

41;
There is no substitute for zeal
There is no time for Peace.

No respite
No forgiveness
There is only WAR!

40
69;
307
There is nothing to fear but failure

225

There is only the Emperor and he is our shield and protector Edition Rulebook, page
8
There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and
protector
There is purity of purpose in the faith of the just

102
37
They who feast today do so in ignorance of their mortality.

Tomorrow they must die or change.

109
This is a dark and terrible era where you will find little
comfort or hope. If you want to take part in the adventure,
then prepare yourself now.

1
Those who act in honour cannot fail.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
204
Navy, pg. 128

Thou shalt not!
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 164
Though my guards may sleep and ships may lie at anchor,

our foes know full well that big guns never tire.

83
Though silver in your palms weighs light

Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
Warhammer 40,000:
Realm of Chaos: Slaves

to Darkness, p. 214;
Thought begets Heresy; Heresy begets Retribution.

59;
Codex: Assassins (3rd
Edition), page 2;
194
Crusade for
Armageddon (Novel),
pre-prologue;
Through the destruction of our enemies we earn our

salvation.
Timidity begets Indecision; Indecision begets Treachery

48
195
To a Space Marine the boltgun is far more than a weapon, it Warhammer 40,000 3rd
is an instrument of Mankind's divinity, the bringer of death Edition Rulebook, page
to his foes, whose howling blast is a prayer to the gods of
54;
battle.
27;
205

27
To admit defeat is to blaspheme against the Emperor

To compromise is to err

245
To die without purpose is not a service.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, pg. 193
To err is to invite retribution.
Warhammer 40,000:
Rogue Trader,
"Counters" section at
end of book
To fail in the service of the Emperor is the greatest of sins.
Imperial Armour
Guard and Imperial
Navy, page 182
To fault the Emperor's Word is an act of sedition

250
To question is to doubt

219
To question the Emperor's will is to embrace heresy.

134
To serve Him is to worship Him.

To withdraw in disgust is not apathy.

124
To withdraw in disgust is not cowardice.

117
True faith is blind and justified

206

190
True happiness stems only from duty

187
Truth begets hatred

Trying to understand weakens the will to act

V
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Vengeance is your sword.

Hatred is your shield.
Loyalty is your Armour.
Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard

and Imperial Navy, pg. 60
Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), page 56;
Victory needs no explanation,

defeat allows none.
Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook, page

57;
Victory needs no explanation;

Defeat allows none.
Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook, page

85
Victory through superior

firepower.
Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard

and Imperial Navy, pg. 52
Vigilance is the brother of truth
Vigilance is your shield
W
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Watch for the Mutant

page 167
We are all a weapon in the hands of the

Emperor.

pg. 110
We are bound by the blood of Martyrs.

Rulebook, page 94
We can rebuild them

page 6
We must be as unsleeping in vigilance, swift in

judgement, merciless in deed.

Rulebook, page 110
207
We must endure the present so that those who

follow may continue our endeavours.

page 228
We shall carry our word,

We will correct and unify,
Hail the Emperor!

page 92
Weigh the fist that strikes men down

And salutes the battle won.
What fear of death have we who know there is
immortality in the great and noble deeds of
men?
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.

page 74
Rulebook, page 110
Codex Imperialis, page 4;
Rulebook, page 78
What is your life?

My honour is my life.
What is your fate?
My duty is my fate.
What is your fear?
My fear is to fall.
What is your reward?
My salvation is my reward.
What is your craft?
My craft is death.
What is your pledge?
My pledge is eternal service.
Wisdom is the beginning of fear.
Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition),

page 22

page 80;
Codex: Dark Eldar (3rd Edition) page
4;
Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition),
page 15;
Rulebook, page 121;
page 53;
208

Rulebook, page 3
Without Him there is nothing.
Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition),

page 63
Words do not win wars. Deeds do.
Imperial Armour - Imperial Vehicles

Work earns salvation

Rulebook, page 227
Y
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
You are either for the Emperor or you are his bitter foe

You are not required to think, only to act

You are the Emperor's Chosen. Hear His great anger in

the roar of the bolt pistol. See His almighty fury in the
blades of the chainsword. Feel His undying strength in
the protection of your armour.
Codex: Blood Angels (3rd

Edition), page 3
You carry the Emperor's will as your torch. With it

destroy the shadows.
Warhammer 40,000:
Compendium, page 13
Your freedom must be bought in the currency of toil,

tears and blood; a price all men can pay.

Your honour is your life. Let none dispute it.
Conquest of Armageddon
(Novel), pre-prologue
Z
Letter
Thought for the day
Source
Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), page 56;
Zeal is its own excuse
209
'They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me.
Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them.
They will be of iron will and steely muscle.
In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest gun shall they be armed.
They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them.
They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe will best them in
battle.
They are my bulwark against the terror.
They are the defenders of Humanity.
They are my Space Marines...
...and they shall know no fear.'
-The Emperor of Man
''Another day nearer the battle
So drink up, lads and look brave.
For another day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave.''
Imperial Guard drinking song
''Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. But those who
understand realise that you have no right to let them live.''
-In Exterminatus Extremis
''Do not ask which creature screams in the night.
Do not ask who crouches in the shadow.
For it is my voice that wakes you in the night
And me who watches you from the shadow.
I am Tzeentch and you are the puppet
That dances to my tune.''
Karazantor the Vile, Traitor of Xian
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THE COMPLETE BOOK OF QUOTES

''NOBODY IS INNOCENT, THERE ARE MERELY VARYING

Thoughts of the Day p.180

Should a machine not function upon striking the panel

Question: What has the Emperor ever done for me?

There is only the Emperor,

Hate! Hate! Hate!

You gaze at the mountain, Children of Terra, you see its

murderous. It has broken countless Children of Terra

Firing rite (old

With the blood of an enemy shall the marks be made

How can a man be happy if he cannot serve his lord with

Every servant has his place, no matter how lowly or

The Credo of the

Our thoughts light the Darkness that others may cross

You pride yourselves on your power, your Imperium of a

There can be no bystanders in the battle for survival.

The Imperium! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its

A fortress is a living thing: the commander its brain, the walls

Contact with alien races always renews one's faith in humanity.

You will shoot your enemy once, to ensure he fights

Warhammer 40,000 5th

If you don't expect gratitude

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

Victory? What use is victory?

No world shall be beyond my rule; no enemy shall be beyond

Its often remarked that diplomacy is

For the Emperor (Novel) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the

For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

Give me a squad of marines

Warhammer Siege, p. 113

The warp is a vital tool to us, a means of communication and

Earth is the hub of the Imperium. It's the centre of government,

You ask me how, for example, I would deal with a fortress.

Revenge is a dish best served with

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain:

If your battle plan's

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas Cain: Hero of

The past is always with us.

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas

If you go looking for trouble, you're

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas

For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas

The gratitude of the powerful is a

For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas

Old friends are like debt collectors;

For the Emperor (Novel) - Ciaphas

One thing you can say for enemies;

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas

Paranoia is a very comforting state of

The Traitor's Hand (Novel) - Ciaphas

Attention all vessels, this is Lord Admiral Rath. It is clear to me

All ahead full and damn the torped...

Fear to Tread (Novel)

The wider he smiled and called us friend, the

The Traitor's Hand

Life's a journey. Shame about the destination.

The Traitor's Hand