Vices Quotes

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Vice is its own reward.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.