Vices Quotes - Page 2

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

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

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

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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

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

Vice is its own reward.

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

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

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

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

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.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

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

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

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

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

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

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