Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.
I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that`s just gotten completely out of control and you`ve seen it in politics.
Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
You either get to play a vicious mother-in-law who hates the bahu, or makkhis and naagins. There is no creative satisfaction in TV.
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They're not. They're crazy in that they watch the tape of our games more than I do. But they're passionate and smart.
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts.
People have to carry on because if you don't the violence wins. We need to keep incentivising our youths to stop this vicious cycle.
I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.
I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.
When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.
It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
Nice, beautiful girls get bullied online because all it takes is one jerk with a log-in and a grudge to launch a vicious, nameless attack.
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.
The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
And we who delve in beauty's lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
The British press isn't as vicious as it used to be, and these days it's sort of cool to care again. Everyone loves an everyman anthem.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.
I monitor haters' comments. I am aware of vicious rumors, but I am not afraid anymore.
Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.
I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.
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