Quotes About Vice

The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tires to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice" altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Mahatma Gandhi claimed that betting was a more pernicious evil than drinking.

The Divinity is a boundless Ocean of Bliss and Glory: Human minds are smaller streams, which, arising at first from the ocean, seek still, amid all wanderings, to return to it, and to lose themselves in that immensity of perfection. When checked in this natural course, by vice or folly, they become furious and enraged, and, swelling to a torrent, do then spread horror and devastation on the neighboring plains.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.