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The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1) QUOTES

The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1) QUOTES

1 " The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath. "

― Michael Moorcock , The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1)

2 " 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. "

― Michael Moorcock , The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Michael Moorcock , The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1)

4 " When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all. "

― Michael Moorcock , The Warlord of the Air (Oswald Bastable, #1)