# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The Sword of the Dawn

> “I have heard it said it is often safer to dwell in the lion’s lair than outside it,” Oladahn said.
>
> “Safer still to live in a land where there are no lions,” Count Brass retorted.

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The Sword of the Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn.md)
- Page: 291
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Sword_of_the_Dawn_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn/i-have-heard

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> Machine-devoured, all his hours were given o’er to that insidious circuitry, and old grew he, unnoticing, in the service of his engines.

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> “I think you serve a great purpose, Hawkmoon. I think your destiny is a noble one.”
>
> Hawkmoon laughed. “And yet I do not pine for a noble destiny—merely a secure one.”

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> For this was the great power of the Lords of the Dark Empire, that they valued nothing on all the Earth, no human quality, nothing within or without themselves. The spreading of conquest and desolation, of terror and torment, was their staple entertainment, a means of employing their hours until their spans of life were ended. For them, warfare was merely the most satisfactory way of easing their ennui...

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