Vices Quotes - Page 35

• My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

  Alan Cumming

  Feelings, Sometimes, Miserable

  "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Missing, Feelings

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

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• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Vice Versa, Professional Life, Personal Life

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  Aristotle

  Lines, Riches, Flow

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Advice, Credit, Weak

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Reform, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Harm, Mankind, Fanaticism

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• Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hypocrisy, Virtue, Homage

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• Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Eye, Hypocrisy, Virtue

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

  Patrick Leahy

  Change, Simple, Iraq

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

  Lancelot Hogben

  Dark, Average, People

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Forgiving, Cost, Realizing

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Moving, Government, People

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• If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

  Solon

  Government, Slavery, Blame

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• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

  Ruth Gordon

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Too Much

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• If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, House, Doe

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 14 July 1763)

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• I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Hate, Likes, Firsts

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• Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

  Ronnie Wood

  Time, Growing Up, Keith

  "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Punishment, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Judging, Mind

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• Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Believe, Today

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• Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Practice, Expectations

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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