Vices Quotes - Page 33

• I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Cutting, Advice

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• Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

  Lucian

  Men, Greed, Gold

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• When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Desert, Ice Age

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• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Past, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in a great measure free from vices . . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

  Algernon Sidney

  Liberty, Arbitrary, Corruption

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• If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Government, Safety, Justice

  Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life and Writings”, p.386

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• Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Get Well, Men, Rights

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.30, David M Gross

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Liberty, Reform

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Past, Clouds

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• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Men, Hygiene

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Thinking, People

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• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.

  John Arbuthnot

  Passion, Science, Men

  Martin Strong, John Arbuthnot (1745). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford”, p.8

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• Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Weakness, Virtue

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• ... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Wrath, Mad

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.1050, Fortress Press

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Work, Mean

  Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for leaders from both parties. I thank you for your prayers for me and my family, and I ask you to pray for Vice President Gore and his family.

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Party, Abortion

  2000 Victory Speech, delivered 13 December 2000

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• Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Night, Silence

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Philosophy, Golf, Want

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• Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Hate, Doe, Virtue

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• When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

  Lewis Black

  Horse, College, Years

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• What is pity but the vice of kindness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kindness, Pity

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• God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Causes

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