British - Writer | November 18, 1953 -
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
Alan Moore
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The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
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Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
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War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.
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I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.
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I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
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I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
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There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
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When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.
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The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
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Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
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