Vices Quotes - Page 26

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.