Vices Quotes

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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. — Walt Whitman
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune… — Alfred Bester
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. — Robert A. Heinlein
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall… — William Graham Sumner
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think… — Ingrid Newkirk
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has… — Ambrose Bierce
I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal… — Pat O'Shane
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because… — Van Jones
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;… — Unknown Author
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter. — Mary Cheney
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the… — Erma Bombeck
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus
Every vice has its excuse ready. — Publilius Syrus
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." — William Macneile Dixon
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as… — Francis Grund
Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up… — Uthman ibn Affan
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife… — Thomas Lovejoy

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