Vicious Quotes

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.