# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The Warlord of the Air

> “Like most fanatics,” I pointed out coolly, “you share at least one characteristic with children—you want everything now. All improvements take time. You cannot make the world perfect overnight. Things are considerably better for more people today than they were in my—in the early years of this century, for instance.”

- 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: 92
- 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/like-most-fanatics

## 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)