Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or degree:
“Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.”
—Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
“Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness than others. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)