Vices Quotes - Page 37

• What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christianity, Pity, Weak

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• Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

  Allan Bloom

  Artist, People, Democracy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

  Marquis de Sade

  Firsts, Cruelty, Sentiments

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• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  Plutarch

  Writing, Character, Battle

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• We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

  Livy

  Cures, Endure

  Livy (1977). “Titus Livius”

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• Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?

  Dan Quayle

  President, Safe, Politics

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• I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupidity, President, Fool

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• I happen to be a Republican President... ah... the Vice President.

  Dan Quayle

  Political, President, Politics

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• This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

  George H. W. Bush

  Facts, Isolation, Virtue

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• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, World, Helping

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• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Adventure, Dying, Age

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Vice Versa, Credibility

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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• All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Religious, Practice, Water

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1872). “The Sympathy of Religions; an Address Delivered ... February 6, 1870”, p.18

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• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Littles, Able

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Character, Men, Views

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, President, Needs

  "The Washington Times" Newspaper, August 29, 1999.

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• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Ninety Nine, Civilization

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.

  Pat O'Shane

  Women, Black, Firsts

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Recovery, Cutting

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• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Virtue, Authority

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• It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.

  Pope Adrian IV

  Islands, Rome, Law

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• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Education, Sex

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

  Mary Cheney

  Daughter, Mother, President

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Retirement, Children

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• Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Prayer, Mean, Keys

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria

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