Vices Quotes - Page 10

• ... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Law, Community, Adults

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Errors, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rip, Evil, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Light, Sight, Doe

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
  remember that law rules all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Law, Simplicity

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fall, Passion, Men

  "Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 1), 1883.

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• Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Husband, Thinking

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sobriety, Dawn, Ongoing

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• Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

  John Welch

  Business, Book, Thinking

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• What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Son, Desire

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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Justice, President, Causes

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.

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• Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Dust

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1036, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• For in the fatness of these pursy times
  Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Pardon, Fatness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 153

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• For there's no motion
  That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
  It is the woman's part.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.499

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• I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Sweet, Care, Handsome

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• Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

  Connor Franta

  Girl, Smart, Ambition

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

  Richard McCabe

  Acting, Different, Film

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• When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

  Hank Azaria

  Problem, Vice Versa, Involved

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

  Orlando Bloom

  People, Creative, Feelings

  "Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis Interview SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 25, 2011.

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• A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Christian, Choices, Pro Life

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

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