Frases de Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock
Data de nascimento: 18. Dezembro 1939
Outros nomes: Μάικλ Μούρκοκ, مایکل مورکوک
Michael Moorcock é um escritor britânico de ficção científica e fantasia que se manifesta como sendo políticamente vinculado à filosofia anarquista.
Criador do personagem Elric, de Jerry Cornelius e de uma infinidade de outros. Em suas histórias é comum o conceito de Multiverso e o mito do Campeão Eterno.
Citações Michael Moorcock
„Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful“
— Michael Moorcock, livro Elric of Melniboné
Fonte: Elric of Melniboné
„Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.“
Book 2, Chapter 7 (p. 591)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
„“Evil flourishes best in disguise,” said Otto grimly. His companions nodded in assent.
“And the best disguise is simple” said the youth, Federit Shaus. “Honest patriotism. Joyful idealism.”
“You’re a cynic, lad,” von Bek smiled at him. “But sadly my own experience would support your view. Show me a man who cries ‘my country right or wrong’, and I’ll show you one who’d cheerfully murder half his own nation in the name of patriotism.”“
Book 2, Chapter 3 (p. 550)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
„“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.”
“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.”“
Book 3, Chapter 1 (p. 629)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)
„I watched him while he moved about in the nearby spinney below, bending and straightening, shaking snow from the sticks he found, and for some reason was reminded of the parable of Abraham and his son. Why should one serve a God who demanded such insane loyalty, who demanded that one deny the very humanity He was said to have created?“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The War Hound and the World's Pain
Fonte: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 92)
„Here the idea of God has been replaced by the idea of the Future. The two notions are, admittedly, all but identical in the way in which they are self-contradictory and thus always fundamentally confusing to their worshippers, who must look to priests for translation, and so inevitably the priests (or whatever they call them) gradually take power…“
— Michael Moorcock, livro The Steel Tsar
Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 413)
The Steel Tsar (1981)
„I must admit, sir, that I have modified the verses a little, to allow for the new things I have learned, so I am an unreliable source of truth, sir, save in its most fundamental sense. Like a majority of poets, sir.“
Book 3 “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived,” Chapter 1 “Of Weapons Possessed of Will” (p. 270)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
„I understand you now. But surely, if Lucifer is successful, we shall all be saved.“
The Wildgrave’s smile was bitter. “What logic provides you with that hope, von Bek? If God is merciful, He provides us with little evidence.”
Fonte: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 6 (p. 79)
„In my own world, sir, sad to say, human prejudice is matched only by human folly. Not a soul claims to be prejudiced, of course, as there are few who would describe themselves as fools…“
Elric, chewing on a piece of barely palatable salt beef, remarked that this seemed a quality of a good deal of society, throughout the multiverse.
Book 2, Chapter 4 “Land at Last!” (p. 241)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
„There are subjects forbidden by good manners, it seems. As in many societies, I suppose, where the very fundamentals of their existence are the subject of the deepest taboos. What is this terror of reality, I wonder, which plagues the human spirit?“
Book 1, Chapter 4 “On Joining the Gypsies” (pp. 188-189)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
„I am for no master nor moral persuasion. I am for myself. What your yearning soul, madam, might mistake for loyalty to person or Purpose is merely a firm and, aye, principled determination to accept responsibility only for myself and my own actions.“
Book 1 “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” Chapter 1 “Of Love, Death, Battle & Exile” (p. 137)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
„Everything you have done, my nobles, has been stupid. You have been cruel, greedy, careless of others’ lives and wills. You have been blind, thoughtless, provincial and unimaginative. It seems to me that a government so careless of anything but its own gratification should be at very least replaced.“
Book 3, Chapter 4 “Certain Matters Resolved in Quarzhasaat” (p. 280)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
