I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. Michael Moorcock More Quotes by Michael Moorcock More Quotes From Michael Moorcock The subtlest lie of all is the full truth. Michael Moorcock lying Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. Michael Moorcock reckless treasure care Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. Michael Moorcock men mean thinking Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror. Michael Moorcock population our-world helping All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains. Michael Moorcock kings age fall The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution. Michael Moorcock solutions problem facts It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. Michael Moorcock ships men thinking It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. Michael Moorcock trouble past Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? Michael Moorcock cages prisoner knows And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his! Michael Moorcock soul stories attention I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us! Michael Moorcock knows looks And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction. Michael Moorcock cousin destiny lying Everything means nothing that is the only truth. Michael Moorcock mean There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. Michael Moorcock ambition brain heart What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit. Michael Moorcock land usual names Time is the enemy of identity Michael Moorcock identity enemy If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same? Michael Moorcock gun people thinking Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. Michael Moorcock real-life real hero I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. Michael Moorcock really did very upbringing Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America. Michael Moorcock you time believe travel
