Quotes About Vice

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

In such a world, in which virtue is vilified and vice vindicated, it was necessary for Catholics to distance themselves from the zeitgeist: "Today more than ever the Christian must be aware that he belongs to a minority and that he is in opposition to everything that appears good, obvious, logical to the 'spirit of the world,' as the New Testament calls

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

private vice can be publicly beneficial

I know very well that the theatre is Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Evil is moral at its heart—the selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience

Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.

Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.

Cuidado con la tristeza. Es un vicio.

Ce qui m'a gardé de la débauche, ce n'est pas la vertu, mais l'ironie. La bêtise du vice me fait encore plus rire de pitié que la turpitude ne me dégoûte.

Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry that woman often forgets the sensual part of it. Those among us who are unable to deceive themselves have invented vice and refined debauchery, which is another way of laughing at God and paying homage, immodest homage, to beauty.

His generosity was his great strength and his great weakness; he had not enough hands to caress, to embrace, to give; it was the generosity of a creative power, without method and without toughness, which as it were sapped the muscles of his will and almost amounted to a vice.

El juicio sobrio era un arte perdido; aunque no hubo un segundo exodo, reino el vicio y la imprudencia surgida de la desesperacion, similar al fenomeno de los tiempos medievales de la peste

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the crime of Judaism into the fashionable vice of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. Jews had been able to escape from Judaism into conversion; from Jewishness there was no escape. A crime, moreover, is met with punishment; a vice can only be exterminated.

All the déclassés of capitalist society were finally ready to unite and establish mob organizations of their own; their propaganda and their attraction rested on the assumption that a society which had shown its willingness to incorporate crime in the form of vice into its very structure would by now be ready to cleanse itself of viciousness by openly