Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it. — Geraldine Ferraro
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal… — Marquis de Sade
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — Michel de Montaigne
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a… — Pete Rose
Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? — Chang-Rae Lee
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an… — Samuel Adams
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales… — Thomas Paine
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it — Finley Peter Dunne
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle… — Allan Bloom
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis de Sade
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what… — Horace
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. — Unknown Author
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different… — Dan Quayle
I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it. — Dan Quayle
I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President. — Dan Quayle
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush

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