Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa. — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
