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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
John Higgins (2005)
The origin of money is something to do with representational thinking.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
I don’t believe that a violent revolution is ever going to work, simply on the grounds that it never has in the past.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
As to how politics relate to the storytelling process, I’d say that it’s probably in the same way that politics relate to everything.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Stories are at the absolute center of human existence.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The reason I got into magic was that it seemed to be what was lying at the end of the path of writing.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
Swamp Thing (1983)
We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.
Watchmen (1986)
Fascism is a complete abdication of personal responsibility.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
"In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
Watchmen (1986)
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
V for Vendetta (1989)
I can’t see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don’t think that would be possible.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I would like to think that some of my work has opened up people’s thinking about certain areas.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
There is Good and there is Evil and Evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon, I shall not compromise in this.