One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray 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 of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue. — Robert Stacy McCain 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
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
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
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
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to… — Sir Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“ “Virtue is its own reward.But then, the same could be said for sin.” —The Dowager Marchioness of Wallingham to the Countess… — Elisa Braden Copy Share Image
“O, lack and doubt and fear can only come Because of plenty, confidence, and love! They are the shadow-forms about their feet,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
