Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment… — D. James Kennedy
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery. — A J P Taylor
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap — Juvenal
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man — Konrad Lorenz
My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice… — Joe Biden
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with… — C. Wright Mills
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Robert K. Merton
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice — Barry Goldwater
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa. — Joan Robinson
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after… — Adolf Loos
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. — Ouida
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain… — John Angell James
If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops. — Margo St. James
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow… — Allan Pinkerton
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. — Victor Cousin
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original… — Thomas Brooks
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. — William John Wills
I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin'… — Mickey Rivers
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. — Bergen Evans
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have… — Oswald J. Smith

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