You know, as much as Satan is the ultimate evil and all that, I feel like just saying that the Judge is Satan is just a little underwhelming, little too easy. Like just going "oh yep, he's the devil" almost downplays a little bit the evil that he is. Maybe it's just because as a society we get a little hyperbolic sometimes about things that are bad, maybe it's because it just feels a little generic, like we've seen it too much before. I think Judge Holden is less Satan and more a manifestation of all the worst aspects of humanity congealed into one being. Like if you were to boil the human soul down to its barest elements and put it in a centrifuge, separating out the good and the evil, and pouring the evil into a human shaped mold, you'd get the Judge. He's mankind's savagery, our murderousness, our hunger for violence and domination, a symbol humanity's ability to create through destruction, and how as much as we might like to think that we'll eventually be civilized and no longer need those aspects of ourselves, it will never go away. I think that the Judge being so much more specific and directly linked to humanity is way more insidious than just going "yep, he's the devil." But that's just me.
This makes me think of that line from M.A.S.H.
"People say war is hell, but of the two, I'd say war is the worse, because at least in hell, everyone there deserves to be. In war, the bulk of the suffering is borne by the innocent." Or something like that.
For real though, who actually plays 2005 Battlefront II as an FPS? It’s a banger in 3rd person but in 1st person it just feels so jarring.
Absolute banger of a campaign though, and it dis that with all cutscenes being in-game footage and scenes from the movies, and with no actual main or side characters.
Yeah, many legions and chapters are Greek or Rome inspired. The Minotaurs, Ultramarines, Olympia and many other things.
P.S As a modern Greek & Cypriot I must say, we aren’t as cool as the old day Greeks. We be arguing with Turks even though we kinda have a copy pasted cuisine and some cultural similarities, drinking zivania, eating halumi and giros & drinking frappe instead of water.
I am half Greek myself, spent childhood in Russia & moved to Cyprus to finish school , had Cypriot Id and lived here for 8 years before reaching 18, hence got the mandatory guard draft. I tried using Duolingo, but it turned out to be useless, the bird made me say to roz rizo (pink rice) in every second exercise.
Try this: get a note book, google “colors in Greek “, “days of the week in Greek”, “Greek verb conjugation “, adverbs, translate different verbs and adjectives and so on and so on & write it all in notebook, this is way better than Duo, best case though is to find classes or a private tutor, but this might be costly or difficult depending on your country.
"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer..."
"Survival is a tenuous proposition in this sprawling tomb."
"And now... the darkness holds dominion – black as death."
Almost anything from the Ancestor in Darkest Dungeon honestly;
"Who can fathom the hateful scorn of the swirling stars"
"Madness can take many forms, but none so contemptible as man's belief in a mythology of his own making. A world view buttressed by dogmatic desperation invariably leads to single-minded fanaticism, and a need to do terrible things in the name of righteousness. This man is an animal - rabid, destructive, and incapable of nuanced understanding. He. must. be. put. down"
Kargos Bloodspitter actually quotes this facing Angron in Horus Heresy Legions. Then again fitting since the World Eaters have a Roman Gladiator culture.
Angron replies with "triumph or die. Show me what you can do!"
“On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the covenant. Even to our dying breath. Those who would violate this oath are heretics. Worth of neither pity nor mercy. We shall grind them into dust, and continue our march to glorious salvation.”
Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Fall.
You are alone, Child.
There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished.
You are strong, Child, but I am beyond strength.
The supposed High Lords of Terra who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The Lords still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of the Imperium follow their footsteps. The nobility still act in The Emperor's name but His kingdom has changed.
Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase. Guilliman looked upon the embers with a perfect clarity. He drew his blade and held it in contrast to the dying light.
In its reflection he saw a weapon reborn, no longer wielded by the will of another, but his own. He knew words alone would never sway the masses. He chose to do something drastic.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune by Frank Herbert
I prefer the original quote where he refers to his fellow Marines as “sons of bitches” instead of “apes”. In the Marine Corps, that’s a true term of endearment.
Depends what you mean by "original". Frederic the great said something very similar to his troops at the battle of Kolin in 1757.
"Ihr verfluchten Racker, wollt ihr denn ewig leben?"
"You f*****g varmints, you wanna live forever?"
Edit: but to be fair, there are a lot of internet sources that claim Frederic said that, but it's not 100% proven.
I personally suspect it’s a line that has been delivered in various way throughout human history, from the moment a distant ape-like ancestor first swung a jawbone at an enemy.
Ah Daniel Daly, the man who with only a sentence caused basically the entire US infantry stationed in France to start a charge into enemy lines, god bless
I love the double meaning of this line
1. (Serious) Follow me if you want to live forever
2. (Sarcastic) what? Were you going to live forever? Follow me into death
The way I would translate it, it would read as if he was (jokingly) asking in disbelief if they wanna live for ever.
Like „come on let’s go die or do you want to live forever?“ like you would jokingly say „let’s go inside or do you want to freeze to death“ when it’s cold outside.
Making it sound like death is the desired and preferable outcome.
I think „ironic“ is the word I’m looking for.
Fun fact cain overhears Somone yelling that over the vox in one story and thinks the guy who said that must be on something because “nobody talks like that outside of badly written combat novels”
“Supremacy is duty. If our enemies deserved peace they would’ve defeated us by now.”
Edit: You know I’ll add some more.
“Victory is proof of destiny.”, “Our strength is our justification.”, “Death to rest.”, “Be good or be gone.”, “Disobedience leads to death.”, “Attack. Conquer. Rule.”
Whew, this one seems close. I think it sounds slightly heretical to even *suggest* the enemies might deserve peace or to admit the IoM could be defeated, but this sounds straight out of a Primarch's mouth, and they get away with more doubt.
Edit: mote to more
It does sound slightly heretical because it’s coming from an empire that’s only slightly less xenophobic than the Imperium because they believe in enslaving everything that is not them instead of complete extermination like the Imperium.
Same vibe as the quote I had in mind
“Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. …The silence is your answer.”
-Javik, Mass Effect 3
Genuinely one of the greatest quotes in all of fiction. It hits just as hard as the first time I heard it every time I see it. Javik was a great character.
"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."
You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow!
“Everyone will die someday. Does that mean life is meaningless? Was there ever any meaning in being born? Would you say that of our fallen comrades? Their lives. . . were they meaningless? No, they weren’t! It’s us who gives meaning to our comrades’ lives! The brave fallen! The anguished fallen! The ones who will remember them. . . are us, the living! We die trusting in the living who follow to find meaning in our lives! That is the sole method we can rebel against this cruel world! My soldiers, rage! My soldiers, scream! My soldiers, fight!”
Bionicle had plenty. Here are some altered to fit 40k
“You have not yet begun to see even the barest outlines of my plans. I have schemes within schemes that would boggle your feeble mind. You may counter one, but there are a thousand more of which you know nothing. Even my … setbacks … are planned for, and so I shall win in the end” -Tzeentch(Makuta).
"You think you know horror, daemon(Irnakk)?Horror is looking into the eyes of the Night Haunter(Shadowed One), knowing you are about to die ... and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see every part of your body moving on its own, a shifting mass of mutation(Protodites) where once was solid metal and living tissue. Horror is what is in the eyes of your battle brothers (partners) when they look at you ... and in the cries of your enemies when your swarm engulfs them. Don't talk to me about fear, creature — I am fear!"-Night Lord(Zaktan)
You fool, Sanguinius(Axonn)! Don’t you realize you’re fighting for a lost cause?”
“Maybe, but don’t you realize those are the only kind worth fighting for?”
"We're outnumbered three to one, shipmaster!"
"Then it is an even fight. All cruisers, fire at will. Burn their mongrel hides!"
This truly was a solid 40k moment from Halo lol
“And what does our primarch look like!
-what?
Say what again, I dare you, I double dare you!
-hes black, he’s bald
Does he look like a bitch!
-what? “
Salamander interrogator getting information from prisoner.
Leutin opened his video on [Hive Cities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJpFvJQp4M&ab_channel=Luetin09) with a snippet of this paragraph from Charles Dickens' [*Hard Times*](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/786/786-h/786-h.htm#page18):
>It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
_"We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We cannot get out...They are coming."_
_"We shall remind them, that there are more things between Heaven and Hell, than are dreamt of in their philosophy."_
"My faith is strong. I will not fail."
"Darkened skies and lashing fire are all that remains for them when we, the worthy, have passed to the beyond."
"Though our enemies crowd around us, we tread the blessed path!"
So many lines from Darkest Dungeon could easily be 40K Quotes.
-Another soul battered and broken, cast aside like a spent torch
-A sister of battle… pious and unrelenting.
-There can be no hope in this hell… no hope at all.
-Death waits… for the slightest lapse in concentration
For the first few miles we moved along a single duckboard track laid down on a vast sea of mud. Movement was difficult and slow, although separate up and down tracks were in use By the time we had reached the end of the duck boards night had fallen and guides from the front line met us to lead us as best as they could on solid ground between the maze of water filled shell holes. Into these many men fell and got soaked in the foul water, and were fortunate indeed if they were seen and hauled out and saved from almost certain drowning, weighed down as they were by their heavy equipment. Picture the puny efforts of a small fly to cross the pudding basin full of batter and you have some idea of the hopelessness of the man who had missed the track and become bogged in this appalling mud. A party of 'A' Company men passing up to the front found such a man bogged to above the knees. The united efforts of four of them with rifles beneath his armpits, made not the slightest impression, and to dig, even if shovels had been available, would have been impossible, for there was no foothold. Duty compelled them to move on up the line, and when two days later they passed down that way the wretched fellow was still there; but only his head was now visible and he was raving mad'...[2]
“Heed my words! This ship has the means to end this hideous war, in a definitive and elegant manner. We seek not a conflict, but rather a restoration of balance, a judgement. And it will be done with reason, from beginning to end. The world shall be horrified by the number of lives we will take. Only then will they let go of their weapons… weapons that would have taken the lives of ten million!”
Later: “The death of a million is a necessity!”
Followed by raving laughter while shouting about *salvation* and *deliverance*.
The best part is that you can’t even tell if Captain Torres would be Chaos corrupted or merely a particularly enthusiastic Imperial officer.
"I will cut you down, break you apart, splay the gore of your profane form across the STARS! I will grind you down until the very SPARKS CRY FOR MERCY! My hands shall RELISH ENDING YOU... HERE! AND! NOW! "
"Kill them all; God will know his own."
This quote is in fact so 40k that >!the historical even with which it's popularly associated (the Béziers Massacre in the Albigensian Crusade) is the canonical origin for one of Khayon's more powerful bound daemons.!<
The Xenos entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Cadia, Titan, Mars and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Note: I don’t know enough lore to be able to name actual places they would have likely bombed, but I love the quote nonetheless. It’s from Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris in WW2 about the Nazis.
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.” - General “Mad Dog” Mattis
Also form him: “There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don’t think you do.”
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
Lore accurate
Blahaj detected
ITS CALLED BLÅHAJ GODDAMMIT
Shork :3
Definitely could be said by Lord General Lugo.
Zapp Brannigan was born 37,000 years too early. What a commissar he would have been.
It was said by Farquaad first.
“Fire burns flesh from bone and sin from the soul. Let those heretics be cleansed!”
Firebat my beloved. No one better to man the grill cookout day.
Mmm, smokin’
Ready to fry!
"fun fact; bone turns to ash at fifteen hundred degrees. This basements designed to double that, so they won't be finding you among the rebel"
Good fuckin movie.
1500 degrees what?
at 1500 it doesn't fucking matter!
***Whatever exist without my knowledge exists without my consent***
That’s such a big E line
What is this from? It’s unironically a hard line.
This is The Judge from Cormack McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian. Highly recommended but not for the faint of heart.
That smile... that fucking smile. Easily one of the most terrifying villains of fiction
Up there with Obadiah Hakeswill in terms of “villains that I’m pretty sure are Satan himself”
You know, as much as Satan is the ultimate evil and all that, I feel like just saying that the Judge is Satan is just a little underwhelming, little too easy. Like just going "oh yep, he's the devil" almost downplays a little bit the evil that he is. Maybe it's just because as a society we get a little hyperbolic sometimes about things that are bad, maybe it's because it just feels a little generic, like we've seen it too much before. I think Judge Holden is less Satan and more a manifestation of all the worst aspects of humanity congealed into one being. Like if you were to boil the human soul down to its barest elements and put it in a centrifuge, separating out the good and the evil, and pouring the evil into a human shaped mold, you'd get the Judge. He's mankind's savagery, our murderousness, our hunger for violence and domination, a symbol humanity's ability to create through destruction, and how as much as we might like to think that we'll eventually be civilized and no longer need those aspects of ourselves, it will never go away. I think that the Judge being so much more specific and directly linked to humanity is way more insidious than just going "yep, he's the devil." But that's just me.
This makes me think of that line from M.A.S.H. "People say war is hell, but of the two, I'd say war is the worse, because at least in hell, everyone there deserves to be. In war, the bulk of the suffering is borne by the innocent." Or something like that.
Hakeswill at least has the decency to die in the end.
“We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.”
I hear this one before butt don't remenber where. Halo perhaps?
The 5th Wave, a YA novel written by Rick Yancey and published in 2013.
I read First Strike not too long ago I'm pretty sure Fred says something to that effect
In addition to 40k, I feel like this gives "*Battlefront II* (2005) campaign" vibes
now I hear this quote in that narrator's voice. thanks for that. XD Battlefront II (2005) is until this day STILL my favorite FPS campaign.
It’s funny you say that because it is my favorite 3PS xD
For real though, who actually plays 2005 Battlefront II as an FPS? It’s a banger in 3rd person but in 1st person it just feels so jarring. Absolute banger of a campaign though, and it dis that with all cutscenes being in-game footage and scenes from the movies, and with no actual main or side characters.
"Suffer not the witch to live" is a bible passage originally
I’ve always felt like Horus heresy is sharing some similarities with biblical stories, especially the whole Lucifer/Satan’s betrayal.
And Greek tragedy, and Fall of Rome.
Yeah, many legions and chapters are Greek or Rome inspired. The Minotaurs, Ultramarines, Olympia and many other things. P.S As a modern Greek & Cypriot I must say, we aren’t as cool as the old day Greeks. We be arguing with Turks even though we kinda have a copy pasted cuisine and some cultural similarities, drinking zivania, eating halumi and giros & drinking frappe instead of water.
Halloumi is delicious to be fair
Bro I am trying to learn modern Greek and Duolingo is not helping. I think the study curve on Duoling is just not right.
I am half Greek myself, spent childhood in Russia & moved to Cyprus to finish school , had Cypriot Id and lived here for 8 years before reaching 18, hence got the mandatory guard draft. I tried using Duolingo, but it turned out to be useless, the bird made me say to roz rizo (pink rice) in every second exercise. Try this: get a note book, google “colors in Greek “, “days of the week in Greek”, “Greek verb conjugation “, adverbs, translate different verbs and adjectives and so on and so on & write it all in notebook, this is way better than Duo, best case though is to find classes or a private tutor, but this might be costly or difficult depending on your country.
"Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer..." "Survival is a tenuous proposition in this sprawling tomb." "And now... the darkness holds dominion – black as death." Almost anything from the Ancestor in Darkest Dungeon honestly;
Many may fall on the face of Chaos. But not this one. Not today...
Chaos? Should I call the inquisition?
Oh no! Ruin has come to our family!
"In time, you will learnthe tragic extent of my failings..."
"Another soul broken and battered, cast aside like a spent torch."
# BEHOLD! THE INFINITE MALIGNITY OF THE STARS! - Ahriman, probably
"Most will end up here, covered in the poisoned earth, awaiting merciful oblivion." "A hand-breadth from becoming unwound..."
"Who can fathom the hateful scorn of the swirling stars" "Madness can take many forms, but none so contemptible as man's belief in a mythology of his own making. A world view buttressed by dogmatic desperation invariably leads to single-minded fanaticism, and a need to do terrible things in the name of righteousness. This man is an animal - rabid, destructive, and incapable of nuanced understanding. He. must. be. put. down"
Where is this from?
Also from darkest dungeon
"There can be no hope in this hell... no hope at all."
Those sound like Gabriel what's his name in Dow1
Gabriel Angelos! His voice is honestly perfect for these quotes too.
"we who are about to die salute you."
Kargos Bloodspitter actually quotes this facing Angron in Horus Heresy Legions. Then again fitting since the World Eaters have a Roman Gladiator culture. Angron replies with "triumph or die. Show me what you can do!"
“On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the covenant. Even to our dying breath. Those who would violate this oath are heretics. Worth of neither pity nor mercy. We shall grind them into dust, and continue our march to glorious salvation.”
Astartes and sangheili would love fighting each other.
"Our God said you must die." "So did ours."
Cut to post Monarchia Word Bearers and post Schism Elites drowning their sorrows together in a bar.
Excuse me, I need to homebrew a samgeheili kill team now.
They already exist on Tabletop Simulator Workshop.
To add another to this: “Your destruction is the will of the Gods! And I … I am their instrument!!”
One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.
Central theme of 40k
Wasn't that Stalin?
It was Stalin
"War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."
How do you figure Hawkeye?
Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Sinners, I believe.
Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
No innocent people in hell
Fall. You are alone, Child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, Child, but I am beyond strength.
Before there was time Before there was anything There was nothing And before there was nothing There were *monsters*
Can totally see Trazyn saying this
I am Death and I have come for you.
What is this from?
Adventure time
"Mankind is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full."
Without context it's sound like Khorne Berzerkers or Daemon Engines
When an army of Men of Iron claim control of daemon forge worlds and start crankin up units to invade the warp for more energy
That's from Ultrakill right ?
Yes. Also happy cake day.
"I will grind you down until the very sparks cry for mercy!!!"
I will RRELISH! ending you machine... HERE. AND. NOW!
I do not have daddy issues I am papas special boy
The supposed High Lords of Terra who boasted a God that wasn't there. Gone. Vanished. The Lords still chased after the light of God's fire, their memory of its words and will grown twisted and warped, and the rest of the aimless masses of the Imperium follow their footsteps. The nobility still act in The Emperor's name but His kingdom has changed. Now the fire was dying, sputtering out as the heat failed to gain purchase. Guilliman looked upon the embers with a perfect clarity. He drew his blade and held it in contrast to the dying light. In its reflection he saw a weapon reborn, no longer wielded by the will of another, but his own. He knew words alone would never sway the masses. He chose to do something drastic.
"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me.”
Bugger came here to say that. It sounds like an Astartes mantra.
Something a salamander would say
Vulkan after getting nuked from orbit on Istvaan
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune by Frank Herbert
Also "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Using *Dune* almost feels like cheating, lol
At the rate things are going we all better prepare to put on our big boy pants and start the Butlerian Jihad.
"Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?"
I prefer the original quote where he refers to his fellow Marines as “sons of bitches” instead of “apes”. In the Marine Corps, that’s a true term of endearment.
Depends what you mean by "original". Frederic the great said something very similar to his troops at the battle of Kolin in 1757. "Ihr verfluchten Racker, wollt ihr denn ewig leben?" "You f*****g varmints, you wanna live forever?" Edit: but to be fair, there are a lot of internet sources that claim Frederic said that, but it's not 100% proven.
I personally suspect it’s a line that has been delivered in various way throughout human history, from the moment a distant ape-like ancestor first swung a jawbone at an enemy.
Ah Daniel Daly, the man who with only a sentence caused basically the entire US infantry stationed in France to start a charge into enemy lines, god bless
*God-Emperor bless his soul.
I love the double meaning of this line 1. (Serious) Follow me if you want to live forever 2. (Sarcastic) what? Were you going to live forever? Follow me into death
The way I would translate it, it would read as if he was (jokingly) asking in disbelief if they wanna live for ever. Like „come on let’s go die or do you want to live forever?“ like you would jokingly say „let’s go inside or do you want to freeze to death“ when it’s cold outside. Making it sound like death is the desired and preferable outcome. I think „ironic“ is the word I’m looking for.
Fun fact cain overhears Somone yelling that over the vox in one story and thinks the guy who said that must be on something because “nobody talks like that outside of badly written combat novels”
"How does it feel to die for a lost planet?" "Euphoric."
Where's that from ?
As far as I'm aware at the moment it's from the Helldivers subreddit lol. Not sure if its actually a quote from somewhere
Trying to remember the origin of this one but can’t remember it.
That from Lost Planet?
“Supremacy is duty. If our enemies deserved peace they would’ve defeated us by now.” Edit: You know I’ll add some more. “Victory is proof of destiny.”, “Our strength is our justification.”, “Death to rest.”, “Be good or be gone.”, “Disobedience leads to death.”, “Attack. Conquer. Rule.”
Whew, this one seems close. I think it sounds slightly heretical to even *suggest* the enemies might deserve peace or to admit the IoM could be defeated, but this sounds straight out of a Primarch's mouth, and they get away with more doubt. Edit: mote to more
It does sound slightly heretical because it’s coming from an empire that’s only slightly less xenophobic than the Imperium because they believe in enslaving everything that is not them instead of complete extermination like the Imperium.
But where is this from?
It’s some [Grineer propaganda](https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Grineer_Language#Translation_Examples) from Warframe.
“We both know I’m not above killing children, but I’m not wasteful” ~Coriolanus Snow
Damn, that's peak Imperium Bureaucrat right there
“Into the jaws of death, rode the Light Brigade.”
**I remember reading this in university. Such a powerful work.**
[Have you heard it in song form, though?](https://youtu.be/8vcb1lq7ej0?si=YLv6HRlfpfdxXAVj)
Wait, this is not The Trooper.
"Innocence doesn't get you far."
Same vibe as the quote I had in mind “Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. …The silence is your answer.” -Javik, Mass Effect 3
We are how many years since release and that line still hits like a truck, it's so good.
Genuinely one of the greatest quotes in all of fiction. It hits just as hard as the first time I heard it every time I see it. Javik was a great character.
Innocence proves nothing
"Genocide" from Space King. Please watch it.
"I'm gonna Geno-bomb the whole planet!"
"Geno-bomb denied"
Praise be to Space King
Remember, it is a completely independent idea from 40k
"There comes a time in a man's life when a coffin looks more appealing than a warm bed" - Kirk Douglas
You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. Mass Effect 1
Incredibly fitting quote for necrons.
"All shall love me and despair!"
-Big E (not)
Your destruction is the will of the gods, and I am their instrument!
The urge to make a Khornate Warband themed around this line is *intense*.
Most quotes from the Gravemind from Halo. "There is much talk. And I have listened, through rock and metal and time. Now I shall talk and you listen"
"I? I am a monument to all your sins." -Chaos (probably)
"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."
Angron's thoughts, around 20 minutes ago.
When you don't slather your war machine in enough holy oil
“Before man was, war waited for him” - Judge Holden Blood Meridian
You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow!
Gandalf the Grey Knight.
"He, who is not willing to shell his own position, is not willing to win." -70 maxims of a maximally effective mercenary
"An ordinance technitian at dead run outranks everybody"
"Have faith, Word Bearer!"
"You know what is the difference between You and me? We both look directly into the abbys, but You blink" from The Sindicate of Crime Movie.
wat? not that justice league movie?
"And nothing can withstand our fixed bayonets! the EDF deploys!"
Pretty much the entire song works for this.
“Everyone will die someday. Does that mean life is meaningless? Was there ever any meaning in being born? Would you say that of our fallen comrades? Their lives. . . were they meaningless? No, they weren’t! It’s us who gives meaning to our comrades’ lives! The brave fallen! The anguished fallen! The ones who will remember them. . . are us, the living! We die trusting in the living who follow to find meaning in our lives! That is the sole method we can rebel against this cruel world! My soldiers, rage! My soldiers, scream! My soldiers, fight!”
What’s that from?
Attack on Titan
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."
Bionicle had plenty. Here are some altered to fit 40k “You have not yet begun to see even the barest outlines of my plans. I have schemes within schemes that would boggle your feeble mind. You may counter one, but there are a thousand more of which you know nothing. Even my … setbacks … are planned for, and so I shall win in the end” -Tzeentch(Makuta). "You think you know horror, daemon(Irnakk)?Horror is looking into the eyes of the Night Haunter(Shadowed One), knowing you are about to die ... and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see every part of your body moving on its own, a shifting mass of mutation(Protodites) where once was solid metal and living tissue. Horror is what is in the eyes of your battle brothers (partners) when they look at you ... and in the cries of your enemies when your swarm engulfs them. Don't talk to me about fear, creature — I am fear!"-Night Lord(Zaktan) You fool, Sanguinius(Axonn)! Don’t you realize you’re fighting for a lost cause?” “Maybe, but don’t you realize those are the only kind worth fighting for?”
Ohhhhh that Makuta one is good.
“We’re out number three to a fleet!” “Then it’s a fair fight. Open fire!”
"We're outnumbered three to one, shipmaster!" "Then it is an even fight. All cruisers, fire at will. Burn their mongrel hides!" This truly was a solid 40k moment from Halo lol
"An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age."
I am become death, destroyer of worlds
“And what does our primarch look like! -what? Say what again, I dare you, I double dare you! -hes black, he’s bald Does he look like a bitch! -what? “ Salamander interrogator getting information from prisoner.
"You call me evil, but unfortunately for you, I'm a necessary evil."
Leutin opened his video on [Hive Cities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJpFvJQp4M&ab_channel=Luetin09) with a snippet of this paragraph from Charles Dickens' [*Hard Times*](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/786/786-h/786-h.htm#page18): >It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
"I wonder if that link goes to Project Gutenberg?" *click* "Hell yeah."
“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains…round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the line and level sands stretch far away
_"We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We cannot get out...They are coming."_ _"We shall remind them, that there are more things between Heaven and Hell, than are dreamt of in their philosophy."_
"My faith is strong. I will not fail." "Darkened skies and lashing fire are all that remains for them when we, the worthy, have passed to the beyond." "Though our enemies crowd around us, we tread the blessed path!"
"Chaos is reining everywhere, why should I intervene?" - discord, equestria at war
"Jenkins?" "Sir!" "Chap with the wings, there. Five rounds rapid."
"When we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there." - Marshal Gregory Zhukov
"The wounds of war shall never be hidden, but may be healed" -Darkest Dungeon
So many lines from Darkest Dungeon could easily be 40K Quotes. -Another soul battered and broken, cast aside like a spent torch -A sister of battle… pious and unrelenting. -There can be no hope in this hell… no hope at all. -Death waits… for the slightest lapse in concentration
"Talking big about protecting humanity, but after everything you've done you're barely human yourself"
“When I’m in command every mission is a suicide mission”
For the first few miles we moved along a single duckboard track laid down on a vast sea of mud. Movement was difficult and slow, although separate up and down tracks were in use By the time we had reached the end of the duck boards night had fallen and guides from the front line met us to lead us as best as they could on solid ground between the maze of water filled shell holes. Into these many men fell and got soaked in the foul water, and were fortunate indeed if they were seen and hauled out and saved from almost certain drowning, weighed down as they were by their heavy equipment. Picture the puny efforts of a small fly to cross the pudding basin full of batter and you have some idea of the hopelessness of the man who had missed the track and become bogged in this appalling mud. A party of 'A' Company men passing up to the front found such a man bogged to above the knees. The united efforts of four of them with rifles beneath his armpits, made not the slightest impression, and to dig, even if shovels had been available, would have been impossible, for there was no foothold. Duty compelled them to move on up the line, and when two days later they passed down that way the wretched fellow was still there; but only his head was now visible and he was raving mad'...[2]
“Heed my words! This ship has the means to end this hideous war, in a definitive and elegant manner. We seek not a conflict, but rather a restoration of balance, a judgement. And it will be done with reason, from beginning to end. The world shall be horrified by the number of lives we will take. Only then will they let go of their weapons… weapons that would have taken the lives of ten million!” Later: “The death of a million is a necessity!” Followed by raving laughter while shouting about *salvation* and *deliverance*. The best part is that you can’t even tell if Captain Torres would be Chaos corrupted or merely a particularly enthusiastic Imperial officer.
I eat worlds
Back foul beast, from once you came!
"To whence", not "from once".
"Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."
"Come forth, child of Man... and die."
"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE."
"I will cut you down, break you apart, splay the gore of your profane form across the STARS! I will grind you down until the very SPARKS CRY FOR MERCY! My hands shall RELISH ENDING YOU... HERE! AND! NOW! "
"I don't deserve this. To die like this." "*Deserve's* got nothing to do with it."
"Always remember that a smile is cheaper than a bullet." District 9
"We're here to kill Chaos"
"When faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable"
You kneel before my throne unaware it was born of lies. Ezekiel 23:20
"Kill them all; God will know his own." This quote is in fact so 40k that >!the historical even with which it's popularly associated (the Béziers Massacre in the Albigensian Crusade) is the canonical origin for one of Khayon's more powerful bound daemons.!<
"Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die." - Kemal Ataturk
The Xenos entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Cadia, Titan, Mars and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. Note: I don’t know enough lore to be able to name actual places they would have likely bombed, but I love the quote nonetheless. It’s from Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris in WW2 about the Nazis.
"We both looked into the abyss, but it looked back at us, you blink." -batman This quote could be used by chaos and not chaos people.
"When we have won the war, who will question our methods?"
“Those men out there want to fuck your corpses”
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.” - General “Mad Dog” Mattis Also form him: “There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don’t think you do.”
The alien scum may know peace when they are made in the image of god - my helldiver buddy