Quotes About Virtue

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.