The Emperor’s Words

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“The uniforms of the Imperial Guard are camouflaged in order to protect their wearers by hiding them from sight.

The principle is that what the enemy cannot see he cannot kill. This is not the way of the Adeptus Astartes. A Space Marine’s 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…”
+++ Chaplain Aston, 10th Company, Fire Hawks Chapter +++

“If I were a proper brother-captain, I would know the prayer we are supposed to say. But I think you all know what we have to do. 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 Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy – the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so bad 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.”
~Acting-Brother-captain Alaric of the Grey Knights

“You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable 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.”
- Inquisitor Czevak Address to the Council of Ryanti

Our end is come. But what an end! We have been given the most precious gift: a chance to roar our defiance into the foes that overwhelms us with their numbers. Let the Emperor himself hear our final battle cry! Forward warriors of the Guard, and die like the heroes that you are!
~Last speech of Colour Sargeant Kint, before the annhilation of the Braxian 9th, in the Luxxan Campaign against the Orks

“I give men dreams and men are led by their dreams.”
- Lord Commander Solar Macharius

“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.”

A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt.
A man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Anyone who will not fight by your side is an enemy you must crush.
Camouflage is the color of fear.
Faith is the sturdiest armour. Hatred the surest weapon.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
For a warrior the only crime is cowardice.
For those who seek perfection there can be no rest this side of the grave.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth dying for.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.
Innocence proves nothing.
Inspiration grows from the barrel of a gun.
It causes me constant pain. I would not have it any other way, for it serves as a remainder against complacency.
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Knowledge is power, hide it well.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the awkward question; only the foolish ask twice.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair is an illusion of the mind.
Prayer cleanses the soul, but pain cleanses the body.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive.
The ends always justify the means.
The Known is but a shadow of the Knowable.
The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.
There is nothing to fear but failure.
There is nothing to fear except fear itself.
Tolerance is a sign of weakness
Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none.
We are Last Chancers. If in doubt, shoot it.
We ask only to serve.
What can a man know of the Universe that knows not his own mind.
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.
What is your fate? My duty is my fate.

“Stars were once lit and extinguished by at our command, and you still dare to defy us?”

“There is no such thing as a plea of innocence in my court. A plea of innocence is guilty of waisting my time. Guilty.”

“Excuses are the refuge for the weak.”

“A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn”

‘Do not ask which creature screams in the night,
Do not ask who waits for you in the shadow,
It is my voice you hear in the night,
and it is my body that lurks in the shadow,
for I am Tzeentch, and you are the puppet,
that dances to my tune..’

“There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt”

“We are not your worst nightmare… we are your every nightmare”.

“Who is to judge what is right and what is wrong? Great and powerful foes surround us; unknown miscreants gnaw at us from within. We are threatened with total annihilation. In days such as these we can afford no luxury of morality.”

A good general does not lead an army to destruction just because he knows it will follow.
A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt.
A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.
A small mind is a tidy mind.
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
All untruths are sedition.
An empty mind is a loyal mind.
Be strong in your ignorance.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
Carry the Emperor’s Will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows.
Cease and Repent.
Crush the unholy in all of their many guises.
Damnation is Eternal.
Death is the servant of the righteous.
Destroy the impure.
Doubt is the open gate through which slips the most fatal of enemies.
Even a heretic may repent and in his death be saved. A traitor is forever damned.
Every man is expected to work his fingers to the bone to accomplish the task in hand. And if that proves insufficient, he shall work them to the marrow!
Examine your thoughts.
Excuses are the refuge of the weak.
Exitus Acta Probat: The outcome justifies the deed.
Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.
Faith in the Emperor is its own reward.
Faith is the sturdiest armour. Hatred the surest weapon.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Fear me, for I am your apocalypse.
Fear not the creatures of the jungle but those that lurk within your mind.
Follow me if I advance. Kill me is I retreat. Avenge me if I die.
Form follows content.
Guns and warriors are useful but it is our indomitable will that promises the ultimate victory.
Hatred is eternal.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
He who loses a limb lives on. He who loses his head does not.
He who seizes the moment, he is the right man.
Honour, duty & obedience.
Hope is the beginning of unhappiness.
If a job’s worth doing it’s worth dying for!
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Ignorance is a virtue.
Ignorance is no excuse.
In failure are the seeds of Heresy sown.
Information is power.
Innocence proves nothing.
Know thine enemy.
Know your destination before you set out.
Knowledge is power, guard it well.
Let faith light the darkness of your soul.
No battle was every won that was poorly planned. No plan ever succeeded that was poorly conceived.
No man that died in the Emperor’s service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying degrees of guilt.
Not even the dead know the end of war.
Nothing can hide from the wrath of the Emperor.
One man can start a landslide with the casting of a single pebble.
Only the lost understand true terror.
Peace is hell.
Peace? There cannot be peace in these times.
Perseverance and silence are the highest virtues.
Prayer cleanses the soul, but pain cleanses the body.
Purge the unclean.
Purity is not your best defence; it is your only defence.
Retribution stalks the heretic from afar.
Seek reward in service alone.
Serve the Emperor today, for tomorrow you may be dead.
Sorrow awaits the foolhardy.
Strength through unity.
Strive Harder.
Study the Alien, the better to kill it.
Success is commemorated. Failure is merely remembered.
Suffer not the Alien.
That which is unknown and unseen always commands the greatest fear.
The Cosmos cry out for salvation.
The dead watch over us and guide us.
The difference between heresy and treachery is ignorance.
The Emperor knows, the Emperor is watching.
The end justifies the means.
The enemy of man lies in his own blood.
The only true achievement is purity.
The population needs deception, so deceive them.
The road to purity is drenched in the blood of the martyred.
The wage of negligence is utter destruction.
The wise man learns from the deaths of others.
There is no art more beautiful and diverse than the art of Death.
There is no salvation without suffering.
There is only the Emperor and he is our shield and protector.
Though the artificers of Evil are many, a bolter round kills just as assuredly.
Thought begets heresy: Heresy begets retribution.
To live in peace is to know death, to die in battle is to know peace.
Tolerance is a sign of weakness.
Trust no one else and trust yourself less.
Trust to your faith.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Wisdom is the beginning of fear.
Zeal is no excuse.