Vice Quotes

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

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

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

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

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

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

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

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.