Vice Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Far, Silent, Virtue

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

Blessings, Socialism, Capitalism

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Age, Enough, Old

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

Politics, Saying, Real

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, Person, Mean

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Moments, Habitual

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw

Virtue, Consists, Desiring

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

Hypocrite, Cannot, Hypocrisy

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

Justice, Liberty, Virtue

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, Temper, Virtue

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, Greatest, Liberty

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy, Virtue, Pays

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Others, Forgive, Himself

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Temper, Virtue, Principle

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

Justice, Liberty, Virtue

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Men, Power, History

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

Virtue, Mask, Veil

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

Natural, Demand, Certainty

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy, Old, Means

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot

Outside, Cruelty, Motive

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
Hubert H. Humphrey

President, Million, Bosses

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

Good, War, Patriotism

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope

Nice, Difference, Virtue

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles

Secret, Gluttony

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fact, Often, Ourselves

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

Art, Science, Foundation

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade

Happiness, Choice, Lies

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac

Law, Morals, Relaxed

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