We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck 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
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Moliere Copy Share Image
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image