Tyrants hate original thinking. — Michael Moorcock

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

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.

“I was wondering what made a decent English army officer turn into a desperate revolutionist overnight,” I smiled.

“It happens to many like that,” he said. “I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first... Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one’s own kind are cruel. Not to know cruelty is to remain innocent, eh? And we should all like to remain innocent. A revolutionist is a man who, perhaps, fails to keep his innocence but so desperately wants it back that he seeks to create a world where all shall be innocent in that way.”