We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an…

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as…

— Ayn Rand

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat.,…

— Juvenal

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

— Michel de Montaigne

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious…

— Wayne LaPierre

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but…

— Michel de Montaigne

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the…

— John Marsden

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

— Radhanath Swami

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love…

— Robert C. Solomon

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect…

— James T. Walsh

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso…

— Andres Segovia

Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could…

— Bryan Fischer

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather…

— James Surowiecki

No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for…

— Ben Greenhalgh