Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old… — Samuel Roth
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice… — Jimmy Carter
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like… — Max Eastman
There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa. — Alice Walton
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke
The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady. — Dick Morris
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. — David Ogilvy
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything,… — Peter Damian
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every… — Peter Damian
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. — Michel de Montaigne
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl. — Evangeline Lilly
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. — Francis of Assisi
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. — David Hume
What does the vice president do? — Sarah Palin
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain… — Joseph Nye
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… — Fredrik Bajer
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, — Boyd K. Packer
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who… — Ann Radcliffe
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us. — Lyman Beecher

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