Vice Quotes - page 26

To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. (Primo Levi)
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. View quote
Cicero
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, And can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Then out on the folly of ancient times- The folly which wished you mirth : Look round on the anguish, look round on the vice, Then dare to be glad upon earth ! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism. View quote
W. H. Auden
Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation. View quote
Valentina Matviyenko
Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. View quote
Epictetus
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa. (Max Heindel)
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or vice versa. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. View quote
Henry Miller
... money ... is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles. View quote
Willem Dafoe
Take care that thou be not made a fool by flatterers, for even the wisest men are abused by these. Know, therefore, that flatterers are the worst kind of traitors; for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing; but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies, as thou shalt never, by their will, discern evil from good, or vice from virtue. (Walter Raleigh)
Science tells us that heat may be shown to develop electricity, electricity produce heat; and magnetism to evolve electricity, and vice versa. Motion, they tell us, results from motion itself, and so on, ad infinitum. This is the A B C of occultism and of the earliest alchemists. The indestructibility of matter and force being discovered and proved, the great problem of eternity is solved. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The light of Christianity has only served to show how much more hypocrisy and vice its teachings have begotten in the world since its advent, and how immensely superior were the ancients over us in every point of honor. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it. View quote
Barbara Bush
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. View quote
Ambrose Bierce