Vice Quotes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill
Capitalism Socialism Virtue Miseries Sharing Blessings Equal Unequal Vice Inherent
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington
Character Cursing Practice Sense Wicked Every Despises Foolish Person Vice Mean Low Swearing Profane
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt
Hypocrite Hypocrisy Repentance Only Itself Forgiven Vice Cannot
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Edmund Burke
Wisdom Freedom Liberty Madness Virtue Evils Possible Folly Restraint Without Greatest Tuition Vice
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. Theodore Roosevelt
Politics Saying Typical Real Issues Real Issues American Vice Anything American Politics Avoidance
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
Justice Liberty Defense Virtue Extremism Pursuit Moderation Vice
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. George Eliot
Opportunity Cruelty Every Other Only Outside Like Motive Itself Vice Requires
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater
Politics Me You Justice Liberty Defense Virtue Extremism Would Pursuit Remind Also Moderation Vice
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Virtue Temper Principle Always Moderation Vice
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation. Pamela Meyer
Anger Men Greed Frailty Emotional Con Look Most Always Trump Susceptible Often Human Different Vice Manipulation Exploit Found
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster
War Bible Injustice Oppression Crime Men Ambition Precepts Neglecting Evils Miseries Contained Vice Proceed Which Suffer Slavery
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Adam Smith
Virtue Feared More Excess Because Subject Than Vice Regulation Conscience
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco
Death Fear Sadness Political Vice Versa Pain Living Society Our System Has-Been Able Abolish Absolute Deliver Versa Been Condition Political System Human Vice Human Condition Social Us Thirst
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Good Ought Virtue Temper Principle Always Moderately Moderation Vice Thing
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo
Mask Beauty Virtue Veil Vice
Fast cars are my only vice. Michael Bay
Car Only Vice Fast Fast Cars
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Gentleman Brutal He Vice Who
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway
Death Writing Become Once Pleasure Only Major Greatest Greatest Pleasure Stop Vice Your
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? John Quincy Adams
Rights Humanity First Depend Skin Virtue Evils Moral More Color Doctrine Principle Makes Sources False Very Than Heartless Vice Estimates Which Among Slavery
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. C. S. Lewis
Prayer Church Example Vice Versa Teeth Say Solemnity Proper Outside For Example Does Versa Vice While Mean Should Wash Washing Things Necessarily
When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good. Christie Brinkley
Good You Feel Good Vice Versa Feel Look Versa Vice
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Julian Baggini
Worse Moral Something Failing Judgmental Greatest Condemn Than Being Vice
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein
Virtue Silent Concerned As Far As Vice Prefer Far Ostentatious
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin
Liberty Vice Versa State Individual Individual Liberty Versa Ceases Begins Where Vice
Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not. Ben Shapiro
President Others Immigrants Ate Obama Citizens Joe Some Join Executive Executive Branch His Branch American Depends Vice Vice President Whether While Illegal Who Illegal Immigrants Groups Whomever Believes
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. Dorothea Dix
Crime Petty Degrading Habits Miseries Attendant Indolence Opens Errors Train Dependence Vice Create Many
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