Vices Quotes

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I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel de Montaigne
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever… — Cynthia Payne
Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his… — Mahatma Gandhi
Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no… — Jay Leno
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap”… — Boyd K. Packer
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in… — Noah Webster
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while… — Dave Gorman
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that… — Bram Stoker
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be… — Vaclav Havel
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans… — Lin Yutang
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa. — Helmut Jahn
The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider… — Jonathan Carroll
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. — Confucius
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes. — Sophia Loren
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa. — Andres Serrano
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of... — Benjamin Franklin
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary… — Ludwig von Mises
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.… — C.S. Lewis
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. — C.S. Lewis
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. — C.S. Lewis
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to… — Mindy Kaling
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their… — E.C. Riegel

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