Quotes About Vice

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

because Puritanism is an insatiable vice that feeds off its own shit.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

If human beings had really tried to invent a god, we would never have invented the God of Christianity. He's just too terrifying. Our God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-holy, and omnipresent. There's no place to run and hide from Him, no place where we might secretly indulge a favorite vice. We can't even retreat into the dark corners of our minds to fantasize about that vice without God knowing it right away.

Lei chiama il cattivo umore un vizio; mi sembra esagerato». «A me non sembra», ribattei, «perché merita di essere chiamato vizio tutto ciò che danneggi noi stessi e gli altri. Come non bastasse il fatto che non siamo capaci di renderci felici l'uno con l'altro così dovremmo anche toglierci l'un con l'altro il piacere che a volte il nostro cuore riesce a procurarsi? »

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others—and we pretend they're small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

What is good for the bad, and what is bad for the good.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

The person of God walks the edge; one side virtue, the other, vice.

Virtue is God over the world. Vice is the world over God

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Vice means Immorality,so a sensible can understand the value of the position whose designation is prefixed or attached with the word 'Vice'.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.

The Church and morality say, "A race, a people is destroyed by vice and luxury." My reconstituted reason says: when a people is perishing, physiologically degenerating, the effects of this are vice and luxury (that is, the need for stronger and stronger, more and more frequent stimuli, the kind of stimuli that are familiar to every exhausted nature).

The Church and morality say: 'A race, a people perishes through vice and luxury'. My restored reason says: when a people is perishing, degenerating physiologically, vice and luxury (that is to say the necessity for stronger and stronger and more and more frequent stimulants, such as every exhausted nature is acquainted with) follow therefrom.

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from moral inhibitions. They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the heavens, they would drive his ambassadors from the earth. In a lesser sphere, that is why many men sneer at virtue--because it makes vice uncomfortable.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.