383 Virtue Quotes for You to Enjoy

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. Frank Wedekind

Good Suits Virtue Only Looks Imposing Figures

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. Gary Bauer

Virtue Guiding Empathy Principle Judicial Should

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism. Gary Bauer

Culture Values Diversity Nothing Tolerance Think Virtue Framework Guided Moral About Morality Highest Shared Longer Learn How Up Children Them Pop Pop Culture Many Grow Grow Up Believing

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Worth Virtue Much Premeditation

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? George Bernard Shaw

Virtue Married Trade Unionism

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. George William Russell

Tyranny Imagination Universe Virtue Our Worst Varied Roam Infinitely Uniformity

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees. Glenda Jackson

Care Greed Virtue Everything Weaker Fact Had Knees Sharp Still Been Selfishness Taught In Fact Vice Regard Vices Elbows Them

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal. Glenn Greenwald

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Gordon B. Hinckley

Walk Virtue Daughters Teach Your

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Grover Norquist

Hypocrisy Virtue Tribute Vice Pays

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. Hale White

Myself Every Virtue Worry Possess Faculty Instrument Which Used

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. Harriet Martineau

Creative Virtue Correction Laws Observation Perpetually Encourage May Vice Cannot Process Customs Should Help Therefore Originate Preserve

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. Henry Fielding

Today Tomorrow Virtue May Vice

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole

Lost Virtue Having Knows Been Vice

Failing to see the point is not a virtue. Howard Jacobson

Virtue See Point Failing

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. Hugh Laurie

Happiness Success You Suffering Psychic Virtue Embrace Admit Shake Idea Economy Comfort Sort Whereby Paid Things

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos

Commitment Crime Virtue Blind Intellectual Theory

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. J. M. Coetzee

Life Word Thought Virtue Our Moral Someone Could Writer Days Institutional Conception Well Occupation Sage Still His Times Offer Prize Authoritative Literature Who Her Belongs