Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man… — Hosea Ballou
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is… — Harold Rosenberg
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. — Frank Lautenberg
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. — Uri Geller
We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them. — Joseph Addison
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for… — Barbara Kingsolver
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll… — Samuel Beckett
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a… — David O. McKay
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),… — Aristotle
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is… — Aristotle
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… — Marquis de Sade
I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president, — Dick Armey
Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the… — Henri Lefebvre
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to… — Robert Greene
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still… — John Owen
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… — Kenny Smith
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. — Pleasant Rowland
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain… — Israel Shenker
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think… — Christian Lous Lange
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. — Thomas Browne
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with… — Joseph Kanon

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