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Quotes About Morality

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
~ Stendhal
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
~ Plato
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
~ Melvil Dewey
Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.
~ Gene Wilder
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
~ David Garrick
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
~ Ellen Key
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
~ John Webster
I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
~ John Schneider
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
~ Benjamin Tucker
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
~ Herbert Hoover
If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you'd probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody's definition of carnage and evil is different.
~ Terence Winter
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
~ Paul Fussell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
~ John Stuart Mill
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
~ Otto von Bismarck
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~ Michael Korda
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
~ Izaak Walton
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
~ Ben Carson
If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.
~ Deeyah Khan
Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
~ Laura Mennell
I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
The decision to make Kat Von D Beauty cruelty-free was easy and simple. Sure, my products won't sell in China because of my decision, but if it spares an innocent animal from a life of torture, that is completely worth it in my book.
~ Kat Von D