Vicious Quotes

364 Vicious quotes by 319 unique authors

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to… — Michael Badnarik
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul… — Annie Besant
Be virtuous and you will be vicious. — Samuel Butler
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other… — Lord Byron
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. — Paula Abdul
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm… — Michael Caine
I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you… — Criss Angel
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to… — Benjamin Haydon
Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. — Ming-Dao Deng
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions,… — Sarah Schulman
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a… — Willa Cather
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep… — Ayn Rand
You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff… — Pat Robertson
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. — Samuel Johnson
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those… — Nelson Mandela
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons… — Charles Lindbergh
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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