It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. Michael Moorcock More Quotes by Michael Moorcock More Quotes From Michael Moorcock Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. Michael Moorcock recklesstreasurecare 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 menmeanthinking 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 populationour-worldhelping 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 kingsagefall The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution. Michael Moorcock solutionsproblemfacts It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. Michael Moorcock shipsmenthinking It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. Michael Moorcock troublepast Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? Michael Moorcock cagesprisonerknows 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 soulstoriesattention I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us! Michael Moorcock knowslooks 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 cousindestinylying 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 ambitionbrainheart 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 landusualnames Time is the enemy of identity Michael Moorcock identityenemy 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 gunpeoplethinking Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. Michael Moorcock real-liferealhero I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. Michael Moorcock reallydidveryupbringing 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 youtimebelievetravel I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school. Michael Moorcock doingyouageschool
