A Quote by Dorothy Nevill

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Dorothy Nevill

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Decentralization Ideas People Share Vices Virtue

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Dorothy Nevill
English - Writer
1826 - 1913

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Erich Fromm

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Herbert Samuel

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Andre Gide

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Francis Quarles

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

Ad-Rock

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Most virtue lies between two vices.

Horace

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

H. L. Mencken

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Horace

Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.