Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa — Kendrick Lamar
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can… — William Ralph Inge
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger. — Lucian
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. — Rudyard Kipling
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. — Philip Sidney
No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education… — Thomas Jefferson
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the… — Algernon Sidney
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of… — Henry David Thoreau
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. — Baruch Spinoza
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists… — Victor Hugo
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with… — H. L. Mencken
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their… — Martin Luther
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make… — Peter Drucker
I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for… — George W. Bush
Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is… — Rajneesh
The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit… — Notah Begay III
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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