Vice Quotes - page 3

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. (Christian Lous Lange)
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa. View quote
Andres Serrano
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. View quote
William John Wills
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. View quote
Germaine Greer
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach. View quote
Horace Mann
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. View quote
Samuel Smiles
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. View quote
William James
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. View quote
Thomas Paine
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. (Thomas Malthus)
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable." ― [6]. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none. View quote
Henry Taylor
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. View quote
Alexander Pope
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. View quote
Terence
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy. (Joseph Pulitzer)
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason. View quote
W. H. Auden
Pleasure of itself is not a vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld