Vices Quotes - Page 36

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.

Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation; on some level, the president is always on vacation.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

I can be out auditioning but a lot of times it's word of mouth more than anything - having worked on other projects with people who might see you and recommend for other projects and vice versa.

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.