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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
'Vice News' is cool because they'll just send your local barista to go talk to the head of ISIS.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
My main vice is Herta frankfurters - it's amazing that they stay fresh for ages. They're not very healthy, but they are my treat.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
