Quotes About Vice

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The hypocrisy and social sham of the world, and that I have mastered the following hard truths of life--that there is no love without lust--no friendship without self-interest--no religion without avarice--and no so-called virtue without its accompanying stronger vice. Who, knowing these things, would care to take part in them!

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.

La hipocresía es un vicio, pero no estoy tan convencido de que la franqueza sea siempre una virtud.

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

rather than increasing, corruption decreased. This was not achieved spontaneously, however; instead, a series of measures that were effective in tackling this vice were adopted. Transparency was introduced in law. All documents pertaining to the plan, including the selection of people who benefited from programs, accounts, and invoices were considered to be public documents, open and accessible to any citizen.

Impatience leading swiftly to boredom is my vice, not panic.

What can it profit the soul that the body should be in good condition, free, and full of life; that it should eat, drink, and act according to its pleasure; when even the most impious slaves of every kind of vice are prosperous in these matters?

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827)

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.