Character Quote by Kenneth Minogue Download Open image “Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.” — Kenneth Minogue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Dressings Moral Vices Virtue
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Their [realists'] concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable. National interests… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.” — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. George and the dragon. After many centuries of hopelessness… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new problem by… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“Olympianism is the characteristic belief system of today’s secularist, and it has itself many of the features of a religion. For one thing, the… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
