Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. — Moliere Copy Share Image
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So… — Conan O'Brien 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
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask,… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
