Vices Quotes - Page 39

• It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Italian, Doubt, Esperanto

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• Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Motivation, Decision, Labels

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• The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Art, Spring, Passion

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

  Lyman Beecher

  Law, May, Constitution

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• The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Feckless, Lord

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• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Errors, Age

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

  Paul Valery

  People, Evil, Insulting

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• When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."

  George Washington

  Fashion, Sorry, Army

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• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

  Paul Verlaine

  Law, Ducks, Drunk

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• Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.

  Joe Biden

  America, President, United States

  "Six times Joe Biden aimed for the truth and caused a headache" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. October 6, 2014.

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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

  George Grosz

  War, Artist, Men

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Promise, Jehovah, Moral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4351, Library of Alexandria

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• I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Thinking, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.

  Tom Peters

  People, Leader, President

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.35, Vintage

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Long, Leader

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

  Barack Obama

  President, Biden, Being The Best

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Song, Play

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• Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

  Dennis Lehane

  Vanity, Self, Weakness

  "A Drink Before the War". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 1994.

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• Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

  Edgar Degas

  Knavery, Add, Crime

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• That low vice, curiosity!

  Lord Byron

  Curiosity, Lows

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.139, Routledge

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• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  Epictetus

  Summer, Winter, Opposites

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