Covered Quote by Iwan Bloch

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable.…

— Angela Carter

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished…

— Saint Francis de Sales

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of…

— Henry Fielding

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's…

— Marquis de Sade

“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities…

— C.S. Lewis

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of…

— Samuel Johnson

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap…

— Felix Adler