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Black Legion (Black Legion #2) QUOTES

Black Legion (Black Legion #2) QUOTES

1 " The promise of mutually assured
destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts. "

― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Black Legion (Black Legion #2)

2 " He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him. "

― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Black Legion (Black Legion #2)

3 " The only way to kill me was to welcome his own death, and he did it the moment the chance arose. "

― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Black Legion (Black Legion #2)

4 " This Imperium is ours. We fought for it. We built it with blood and sweat and wrath. We forged it with the worlds we took. The empire is built upon foundations of our brothers' bones...We didn't rebel out of petty spite, Sigismund. We rebelled because our Lord and master played us false. We were useful tools to bring the galaxy to heel, but He would have cleansed us from the Imperium the way He purged the Thunder Legion before us, wiping us all from history like excrement from His golden boots. "

― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Black Legion (Black Legion #2)

5 " They believed the Emperor was a god. I knew how and why this had happened, even before she said another word. It happened as it always happens, as any scholar of their own species’ history can tell you: it happened because the helpless masses were fearful, and because the powerful wanted unchallenged control. Every religion rises for the same reasons – the lower tiers of a society crave answers and comfort, needing rewards in an afterlife to justify the harshness and grimness of their lives. And to prevent uprisings in search of better existences, their rulers institute a creed that keeps the masses obedient and compliant. Meekness, obedience, submission… These become virtues that the oppressed must embody in pursuit of a greater good or a later reward. To stand against the prevailing belief becomes not just philosophy but heresy. Heresy worthy of execution. And so control is maintained by the strong over the weak. "

― Aaron Dembski-Bowden , Black Legion (Black Legion #2)