Action Quote by George Holyoake

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

— William Cowper

For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

— William Cowper

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion…

— John Adams

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

— David Hume

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

— Albert Camus

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

— John Locke

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in…

— Aristotle