Horacio Castellanos Moya famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.
-- Horacio Castellanos Moya

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Horacio Castellanos Moya famous quotes

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