Skip to content

Here the idea of God has been replaced by the idea of the Future. The two notions are, admittedly, all but identical in the way in which they are self-contradictory and thus always fundamentally confusing to their worshippers, who must look to priests for translation, and so inevitably the priests (or whatever they call them) gradually take power...

— Michael Moorcock The Steel Tsar (1981)

Another quote →

More quotes by Michael Moorcock

The albino reflected on the power of the human mind to build a fantasy and then defend it with complete determination as a reality.

The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

Somewhere you can hear them whimpering, as if the evidence of their own mortality were emphasised by the knowledge of other people’s happiness.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.

To Rescue Tanelorn (1962)

Everything dies eventually—but that shouldn’t stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed.

The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967)

Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

All Michael Moorcock quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Moorcock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.