Vices Quotes - Page 36

• Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Lying, President

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• I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

  Paula Deen

  Two, Cigarette

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• Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

  Alec Guinness

  War, Men, Arabia

  "Fictional character: Prince Faisal". "Lawrence of Arabia", 1962.

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

  Rick Santorum

  Strong, Pride, Vanity

  "Rick Santorum defends Satan speech - by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan" by Toby Harnden, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 22, 2012.

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• And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

  Edward James Olmos

  Character, Years, Acting

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• I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

  Edward James Olmos

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Troops, Vietnam

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• O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

  Sarah Trimmer

  Wish, Age, Lord

  Sarah Trimmer (1825). “Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer: With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from Her Journal”, p.117

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• Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

  John F. MacArthur

  Integrity, Discipline, Lust

  John F. MacArthur (2012). “Moments of Truth: Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

  Charles M. Blow

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

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• I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Glasses, President

  Interview with Juan Williams, www.npr.org. January 29, 2007.

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• Vice president—it has such a nice ring to it.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Nice, President, Rings

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.115, Northwestern University Press

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• Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Political, Principles

  Thomas Paine (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.383, OUP Oxford

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• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Passion, Ambition, Character

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• The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Government, Criminals

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Lying, Men

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• God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Rewards, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (1869). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.233

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• He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  Jack Newfield

  Vanity, Boxing, Insecurity

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• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Girlfriend, Mistake

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• Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mind, Sanctuary, Prison

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773".

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

  Patrick Henry

  Appearance, Clergy, Virtuous

  "Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries".

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• When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Names, Religion

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