Quotes About Vices

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Puritanism in this the twentieth century is as much the enemy of freedom and beauty as it was when it landed on Plymouth Rock. It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices.

Of all human vices, none is so insidious and destructive as the blind worship of ability. That way lies abomination.

Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East – irreligiosity, scepticism, occultism, depravity. And I thought of the ideas I had so casually imbibed from Julian and (indirectly) from Sam, some of which I had even begun to believe: Einsteinism, Darwinism, space travel …

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.

qué otro sistema político puede ser más ruinoso y destructivo que los vicios de los hombres?

For no matter how weak she felt, Betsy could wield words as a weapon. When an acquaintance insisted it was impossible to acquire a knowledge of the world without being deeply infected with its vices, she retorted that knowledge was a precaution rather than a trap, "for as soon as [we] have found out where [we] are mostly likely to be overcome, there let [us] place [our] strongest guard.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.

Human beings are a much worse poison than schnapps or tobacco.

Žmon?s daug piktesni nuodai nei degtin? ir tabakas.

Habits can be good or bad, whereas addictions are always bad.

Learn your own faults and vices; but do not assume that all of them should be eradicated. Sometimes, like beasts serving a greater master, they provide necessary balance and thus deserve indulgence; sometimes they are the indivisible shadows of virtues themselves.

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.

While he values ethics he understands that apart from God moral principles are simply changing conventions and today's vices can become tomorrow's virtues.