Vices Quotes - Page 8

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.