Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.
– Horacio Castellanos Moya
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- Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. – Oscar Wilde
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- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
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- If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. – Mark Twain