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Vice Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.…
- Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
- According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and…
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
- The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
More Vice Quotes
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally. — Joe Biden
- Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of… — Joe Biden
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on… — Ambrose Bierce
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte