Vicious Quotes

• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Birthday, Walking Away

  "Blitzkrieg Bot: Watch Some Robots Cover The Ramones" by Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Years, Liberty

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• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

  Samuel Butler

  Virtuous

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Virtue, Virtuous, Ifs

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• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Patriotic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.144, Wordsworth Editions

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• Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

  James F. Cooper

  Party, Purpose, Politics

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

  Sid Vicious

  Music, Vicious Circles, Mum

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• University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Education, Witty, Powerful

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• All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  Xunzi

  Character, Mean, Animosity

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press

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• It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

  Joe Biden

  Blame, Crime

  Interview with Liz Brody and Wendy Naugle, www.glamour.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

  James Surowiecki

  Dream, Procrastination, Self

  "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

  Avril Lavigne

  Generations, Sids, New Generation

  "Blitzkrieg Bot: Watch Some Robots Cover The Ramones" by Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. February 27, 2013.

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• The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

  Margaret Atwood

  Needs, Stories, True Story

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Justice For All, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Vices, Literature

  "Lord Byron", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Warrior, People, Enemy

  "This is not crime, this is war" by Charles Krauthammer, townhall.com. September 12, 2001.

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• He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Vision

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• Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religion, Ruthless, Consistently

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People, Victim

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• I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control the sandbox, and I am trying to orchestrate media that isn't just out there to push the right-of-center Libertarian narrative, I'm out there to destroy the false order, the false control that the left has in controlling the mainstream media in America.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Media, Order, America

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

  Arthur Helps

  Atmosphere, Littles, Toil

  Sir Arthur Helps (1853). “Fruits of leisure: Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.25

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