Vices Quotes - Page 38

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.