Action Quote by James Harrington

“Man was created with an aspiration for significance, which is a virtue. Man can pervert that drive into a lust for power, which is…

— R.C. Sproul

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

— Francis Bacon

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

— Finley Peter Dunne

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings…

— James Allen

A vice is a failure of desire

— Gerald Stanley Lee

“men are often persuaded to new vices when properly motivated.”

— Gary Williams

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

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

— Ben Jonson

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan