Vices Quotes

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

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.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

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

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Vice is its own reward.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.