# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The City in the Autumn Stars

> “He’s vain. His vanity’s hurt by the world’s refusal to accept his remedies and become immediately Enlightened. And what does a vain man do when insulted, Sir?”...“He lashes out, Sir,” says I. “He seeks to portion blame. He fumes, Sir. He attacks. In the case before us, such is his despotic power, he kills. He kills, Sir. He wars on other nations. Mary’s blood, Sir, but this poor sphere of ours suffers more from the single, frustrated egoist than from any natural—or supernatural—misery. Your own Church’s history, Sir, illustrates my point well enough, eh? We are too frequently in the power of mad children, who rage and stamp and break Kingdoms as they break toys. They order thousands of deaths a day as if they were spoiled brats kicking at their dolls!”

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md)
- Page: 197
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/hes-vain-his

## More from this book

> “Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”
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> “The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.”

p. 377 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/are-you-aware.md)

> The English, I now know, eat mashed fish and deviled sheep’s hearts to guarantee a bad digestion (and consequent irritability). It is their abominable cooking which has given them half the world as their Empire.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/the-english-i-now.md)

> You may be abandoned by Satan, Sir, and I abandoned by God, but that does not put us in the same cart, nor even upon the same road.

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/you-may-be-abandoned.md)