Alan Moore Quotes

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy.

A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity.

You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres;

it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

War is a perversion of sex.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.