Vices Quotes · Page 44

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is…

— Ptolemy

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love…

— Anonymous

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

— Barry Goldwater

I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.

— Lake Bell

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

— Lord Byron

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the…

— Samuel Johnson

One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa…

— Jack D. Schwager

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this…

— John Adams

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons…

— J. M. E. McTaggart

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who…

— Maria Bartiromo

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is…

— Roger L'Estrange

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a…

— Allen Steele

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.…

— William Hazlitt

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

— Benjamin Franklin

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a…

— Franklin P. Adams

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom…

— Ludwig von Mises

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of…

— Carl Jung