# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The Dragon in the Sword

> “There could be an end to all this, when the Lords of the Higher Worlds and all the machinery of cosmic mystery shall be no more. And perhaps that is why they fear mortals so much. The secret of their destruction, I suspect, lies in us, though we have yet to realize our own power.”
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> “And do you have a hint of what that power may be, Eternal Champion?” said Alisaard.
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> I smiled. “I think it is simply the power to conceive of a multiverse which has no need of the supernatural, which, indeed, could abolish it if so desired!”

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The Dragon in the Sword](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword.md)
- Page: 646
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Dragon_in_the_Sword_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/there-could-be-an-end

## More from this book

> Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!

p. 560 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/your-imagination-is-notoriously.md)

> Indeed, to be a hero, forever at war, is to be in some ways always a child. The true challenge comes in making sense of one’s life, of imbuing it with purpose based on one’s own principles.

p. 687 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/indeed-to-be-a-hero.md)

> “For years my lady made her plans. And when the time came to put them into action, how wonderfully she was able to achieve her ambitions.”
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> “Only because few rational people can ever begin to understand such a lust for power,” said von Bek feelingly. “There is nothing more puerile than the mind of a tyrant.”

p. 629 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/for-years-my-lady.md)