Action Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown…

— Rudolf Rocker

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into…

— Mark Twain

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

— Joseph Addison

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is defined as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood…

— Kevin Dutton

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

— Vittorio Alfieri

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

“Malevolent ASPD. Possibly one of the most dangerous subtypes, psychopaths who fall into this category have dominant tendencies related to sadism (violence) and paranoia.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

— Christian Nestell Bovee