# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The Warlord of the Air

> It’s what they call a “theocracy”—priest-ridden in the extreme, full of dark superstitions and darker myths and legends, where all gods and demons are honoured, doubtless to be on the safe side. The people are cruel, ignorant, dirty and proud—they look down their noses at all other races.

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The Warlord of the Air](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air.md)
- Page: 14
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Warlord_of_the_Air_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/its-what-they

## More from this book

> The conqueror always assumes that his moral superiority—rather than his ferocious greed—is what has allowed him to triumph.

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/the-conqueror-always.md)

> Tyrants hate original thinking.

p. 106 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/tyrants-hate-original.md)

> In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.

p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/in-an-infinite.md)