The Eternal Champion Quotes

“A man jealous and resentful of his leader is capable of doing more harm than any enemy.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“There is a great tendency for the human race to see all other times in its own terms.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“He sighed. “Well, our advice was foolish. Now you will die when we die.” “I would rather that, I think,” I said.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“Goodbye, Queen. You have lost your champion now.” I jumped. I landed in a rosebush that ripped at my skin,”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“THE LESS OF a man I became, and the more of an automaton, so the dreams and half-memories ceased to plague me. It was as if they had deliberately driven me into this mindless rôle; so long as I continued to be a creature without remorse or conscience they would reward me with their absence. If I again showed signs of ordinary Humanity, then they would punish me with their presence.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“Arjavh whom, at that moment, I hated with a terrible hatred. I hated him because I must fight this battle and possibly kill him.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“What is love?”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“We found a city of women. Not one Eldren man had remained. Not one boy over twelve. Not one old man of any age. We had slain them all at sea.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“slimy sorcery aids them!”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“The lion does not constantly war with the leopard; the horse does not war with the cow; even among themselves they rarely kill each other, no matter how important the issue to them.” “But they would,” said Count Roldero, undaunted. “They would if they could anticipate events. They would if they could work out the rate at which the rival animal is consuming food, breeding, expanding its territory.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“have taken place in my lifetime on this planet of ours, then you will see things quite as clearly in black and white as I do. You can only judge people by their actions, not by their protestations. People act for good or they act for ill and those who do great ill are bad and those who do great good—they are good.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“And that is one thing that no amount of freedom or “licence” or “permissiveness” or whatever the old fogies call it can cope with. That is the odd assumption found in the twentieth century (I wonder if you who read this will know what those two stupid words mean?):”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel

“The moral point of The Eternal Champion is pretty simple but I think it is worth mentioning. Recently, in a radio interview, I was asked if my use of the forces of Law and Chaos was not, after all, merely another version of Tolkien's or Howard's Good and Evil. I replied emphatically--I use the ideas of Law and Chaos precisely because I am suspicious of simplistic notions of good and evil. In my multiverse, Law and Chaos are both legitimate ways of interpreting and defining experience. Ideally, the Cosmic Balance keeps both sides in equilibrium. By playing "the Game of Time" (or the Blood-Red Game as Asquiol calls it) the various participants maintain that equilibrium. When the scales tip too far towards Law we move toward rigid orthodoxy and social sterility, a form of decadence. When Chaos is uppermost we move too far towards undisciplined and destructive creativity.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Eternal Champion: An Eternal Champion Novel