219 quotes
They blinded themselves to the obvious. That is the great triumph of mindless need over intelligence and the human spirit.
The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
Often people fight hardest of all to preserve a delusion. And they will frequently persecute those who challenge that delusion.
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.
The Warlord of the Air (1971)
For this was the other thing that Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.
The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
Can we break such a law? If we do break our ancient laws, are our customs worth fighting for?”
The Oak and the Ram (1973)
“I am dead,” said Corum, “and would be grateful if you would allow me to be dead in peace.”
The Bull and the Spear (1973)
Such speculation leads us nowhere and everywhere, but it makes no difference to our understanding of our immediate problems.
The Queen of the Swords (1971)
“You blame the gods, then?”
“I blame the despair that the gods brought.”
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
“You look ahead.”
“I look around. Ahead’s here already.”
The Final Programme (1968)
If God is merciful, He provides us with little evidence.
The War Hound and the World’s Pain (1981)
Irony, Lady Sue, is no substitute for imagination.
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)
To the fearful all things are chaotic. That’s how you get religion (and its bastard child, politics).
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)
He laughed. Clearly the idea of the governor intervening on behalf of an ordinary member of the public amused him.
The Cairene Purse (1997)
“There’s more to life than drugs and sex, Mr. Cornelius.”
“There’s more than life to drugs and sex. It’s better than nothing.”
The Condition of Muzak (1977)
The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.
The Mad God's Amulet (1968)
“You think we are in danger there?”
“Danger? It depends what you regard as dangerous. Some wisdom may be dangerous to one man and not to another.”
The King of the Swords (1971)
We’ll build a world where Order shall prevail. A few more deaths are inconsequential, surely, if they guarantee us eternal life and absolute fulfillment?
The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)
Hard labour is a wonderful cure for neurosis!
The Cairene Purse (1997)
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
At last the computer had superseded the automobile as the focus for mankind’s hopes and fears.
The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)