Vices Quotes - Page 38

• There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

  William Macneile Dixon

  Hate, Mankind

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Assistants

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• I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice. . . . No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.

  Francis Grund

  Powerful, Government, Liberty

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• Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Islamic

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Animal, Unique, President

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• Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.

  Samuel Roth

  People, World, Today

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• Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
  It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

  Q-Tip

  Nice, Rap, Hip Hop

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• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Men, Ideas

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.66, Bantam

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• We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Presidential, Church

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• Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

  James Harrington

  Passion, Men, Action

  James Harrington (1737). “The Oceana and Other Works”, p.42

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• Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Patriotism, Facts

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• There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

  Alice Walton

  Art, Horse, People

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• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Art, Political, Politics

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• By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

  Edmund Burke

  Hate, Men, Political

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

  Dick Morris

  Presidential, Political, Typical

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

  David Ogilvy

  President, Revolution, Funny Business

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• Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Historical, Filth

  Peter Damian (2010). “Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices”, p.63, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Heart, Doors

  Peter Damian (2010). “Book of Gomorrah: An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices”, p.64, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Political, Made, Nurture

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• I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Soccer, Girl, President

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• Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

  Francis of Assisi

  Delight, Sin, Demon

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• Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

  David Hume

  Men, Two, Heaven

  David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.118

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• What does the vice president do?

  Sarah Palin

  President, Doe, Vice President

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• As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

  Joseph Nye

  Zero, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

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