Vice Quotes

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

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

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

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

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.