Vices Quotes · Page 11

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and…

— Aristotle

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

— Seneca the Younger

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,…

— St. Jerome

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

— Lord Acton

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to…

— Edward Gibbon

There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor…

— James Garner

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that…

— Michel Foucault

Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny,…

— Graydon Carter

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a…

— William Ralph Inge

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.

— Sarah Palin

Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in…

— Roseanne Barr

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

— Diane von Furstenberg

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at…

— George Grosz

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

— Anonymous

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

— Mark Twain

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional…

— Edmund Burke

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at…

— Lisa Randall

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their…

— David Brainerd

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

— Eric Hoffer

If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people…

— Laozi

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

— William Henry Irwin

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying…

— William Graham Sumner