The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“compassion is a wonderful virtue but don’t waste it on those undeserving.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as… — Studs Terkel 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
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag… — Tina Fey 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
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up… — Carlo Alban Copy Share Image
The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her maskVice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato Copy Share Image
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. — William of Auxerre Copy Share Image
Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
