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

> His stated principle is that all knowledge should be at the public disposal. He argues against the hoarding of scientific discoveries, believing that the miserly act of secretion is in itself bound to produce fear and unnecessary caution in the mind of the citizen. Superstitious destruction of the unfamiliar is its most common expression. Prince Badehoff-Fischer argues that in such matters a secret is parallel, if not identical, to a lie. Both occur because one body seeks power over another.

- 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: 226
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/his-stated-principle

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

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> 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.

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> 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)