But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power tends to get confused with repression.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
There is no power above people power.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.