Vices Quotes - Page 16

• I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

  William Jones

  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

  John Adams

  Luxury, Riches, Extravagance

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.386

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• A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.

  John Adams

  Passion, Errors, Prejudice

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Light, Race

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Odor, Prosperity

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

  William Falconer

  Temptation, Way, Advantage

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• It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Paradise, Mutual

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

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• Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Vacation, Air

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• Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

  Josh Billings

  Brother, Men, Virtue

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• [There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Groups, Imagine

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• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Names

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  William Borah

  Passion, Sleep, Fire

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• The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Complacency, Action

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• You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, People, Listening

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Men, Computer, Should

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works.

  Veena Sud

  Squad, Ideas, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

  J. A. Spender

  Youth, Middle, Worst

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• A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

  Raymond Chandler

  Nice, Men, Affair

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.15, Modern Library

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

  Noah Webster

  Real, Men, Support

  Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19

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