Virtue Quotes - Page 29

• Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Community, Liquid, Doctrine

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.139, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.

  Charlie Munger

  Book, Venice, Long

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• Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  Murray Rothbard

  Eggs, Golden, Rich

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Opportunity, Self, Expression

  Lawrence Fertig (1961). “Prosperity through freedom”

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• Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

  Manny Pacquiao

  Perseverance, Prayer, Character

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• What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gold, Diamond, Valuable

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest.

  Charlie Munger

  Numbers, Vices, Arguing

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• Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

  James Hillman

  Attention, Firsts, Psychological

  James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.85, Routledge

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• A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

  Martin Buber

  Relation, Humans, Whole

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• It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.

  Jacques Maritain

  Christian, Running, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.

  Julian Gough

  Self Esteem, Should Have, Suffering

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• Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

  Max Anders

  Fundamentals

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• God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Son, Ideas, Concepts

  Twitter post from May 06, 2015

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• Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Tolerance, Body, Christ

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2015

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• Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Humility, May

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• One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Political, Agendas, Moral

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• For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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• There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Football, Winning, Games

  "The Facts Of The Matter". Sports Illustrated, January 19, 1959.

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• The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Rules And Regulations, Body

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, People

  "Presumptions Of The Left". townhall.com. May 16, 2007.

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• The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Soul, Sublime

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• We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Sight, Ideas

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

  Aristotle

  Children, Eye, Differences

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• Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Punishment, People

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