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Michael Moorcock

It is strange how all authoritarians automatically assume that the libertarian wishes to impose his own views on them when all he actually wants to do is to appeal to the authoritarian’s better nature. But I suppose you authoritarians can only see things in your own terms.

Count von Bek to the narrator of The Warlord of the Air: A Scientific Romance (1971), the first novel of A Nomad of the Time Streams series by Michael Moorcock (2013 Titan Books edition, p. 149).

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