# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The Land Leviathan

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

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The Land Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan.md)
- Page: 214
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Land_Leviathan_(1974)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan/there-is-less

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> It is the spirit of Salem—the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal—infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan/it-is-the.md)

> “Violent men believe only in such concepts as ‘weakness’ and ‘cowardice’. They are so deeply cynical , so rooted in their own insane beliefs, that they cannot even begin to grasp the concept of ‘pacifism’.”

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan/violent-men-believe.md)

> The soldier shook his head, waxing philosophical. “It’s a madness, sir. We’ve all got it. It could go on until the last human being crawls away from the body of the chap he’s just bashed to bits with a stone. That’s what war is, sir—madness. You don’t think about what you’re doing. You forget, don’t you—you just go on killing and killing.”

p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan/the-soldier-shook.md)