Vices Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Issues, Ties, People

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• Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Evil, Mind, Virtue

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• Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

  Uri Geller

  Agency, Psychics, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Luxury, Ancient, Poor

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Teacher

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• Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Soul, Meals, Flavor

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.106, Faber & Faber

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• What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mentor, Want, Matter

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Names, Parent

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• Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Men, Class

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Passion, Action

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.43, Aeterna Press

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• I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

  Dick Armey

  President, Vice President

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• Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Life Changing, Lessons To Be Learned, Ideas

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• Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

  John Owen

  Men, Corruption, Depravity

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• Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted).

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

  Pleasant Rowland

  Life, Excess, Virtue

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• Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

  Israel Shenker

  Pain, Confusion, Awkward

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Thinking, Needs, Vice Versa

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• They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

  Thomas Browne

  Virtue, Endeavour, Contrary

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.119

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• Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

  Joseph Kanon

  Editors, Competition, Vice Versa

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  Ella Leya

  Profound, Desert, Erratic

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• Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

  Daniel Schacter

  Memories, Bridges, Mind

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• The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

  Mary Cheney

  Presidential, Vice President, Afterthought

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, People, May

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Oct 04, 2015

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