Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no… — Mahatma Gandhi
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. — Benjamin Franklin
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy… — Barack Obama
Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film actually features Al… — Jay Leno
I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other… — Hillary Clinton
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust. — Piers Paul Read
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore… — Neal A. Maxwell
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have… — Christopher Wren
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar. — St. Jerome
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more… — E. M. Forster
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that… — Stephen Schneider
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. — Ignacio Chapela
There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day. — Joe Biden
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa. — Charlie Munger
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every… — George Washington
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are… — Carl Jung
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,… — Horace Mann
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron
The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them. — William Redington Hewlett

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