Quotes About Virtue

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.