Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 is only moral when it is voluntary.
I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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