Vices Quotes

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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. — Kevin Keegan
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy — Jack Ruby
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. — Bill Gates
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. — Whitney M. Young
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa. — Alan Ayckbourn
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . .… — Georges Bizet
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding… — Alan Greenspan
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may… — John Tyler
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much. — Mary Cheney
The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover. — Greg Gutfeld
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their… — William H. Seward
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or… — Lysander Spooner
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the… — John Philip Sousa
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of… — Thomas R. Marshall
There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different… — Jonathan Carroll
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields… — Iwan Bloch
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what… — Frederic Bastiat
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. — Samuel Johnson
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow… — Edward Dahlberg
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac
I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the… — Scott McClellan

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