“There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.”

— Michael Moorcock , book The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

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