Xenos

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

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.

What the hell are you doing, trooper?” he managed to bark, his pronounced Adam's apple bobbing furiously. “Performing the ministry of the sacred Inquisition,” I told him, and shot him through the head.

I don't care if every man jack of them forgets his own mother's name and wets himself, they must still know how to hold a line, fire and reload, adore the Emperor and respond to orders. - Inquisitor Eisenhorn