“Change Perturarbo’s mind? One would have as much luck knocking down the walls of a fortress by pelting it with eggs… No, I correct myself: rotten eggs, because I suppose, when using ordinary eggs, with enough time, pressure, and volume…”
- Vulkan, “On The Primarchs,” Volume XVIII
“Leman isn’t wrong, you know. A love of learning and a love of books do nothing to compensate for an appalling moral compass. Milton said, ‘where one burns books, one burns men,’ and this is true enough. However, I defy any being to prove the inverse is always true. Where one will save books, one will not necessarily have the desire to save men.”
- Alpharius, “On The Primarchs,” Volume XX
“The Imperial Senate proves the adage that class is no indication of culture. I never saw so many loud robes, ugly shoes, fat fingers stuffed in gaudy rings. Not a good book read among them. I understand, as Father says, that administration of an empire requires the evils of generational bureaucracy. That does not change my view that the administrators themselves reek of tactlessness and overwhelming privilege.”
- The Eleventh Primarch to Malcador, “On the Primarchs,” Volume XI (Banned)
