Vices Quotes

Pleasure of itself is not a vice.

Samuel Johnson

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

George Eliot

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I got this today, they say; tomorrow I shall get that. This wealth is mine, and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am successful. I am powerful. I am happy. I am rich and well-born. Who is equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts, and rejoice in my own generosity. This is how they go on, deluded by ignorance. Bound by their greed and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell. Self-important, obstinate, swept away by the pride of wealth, they ostentatiously perform sacrifices without any regard for their purpose. Egotistical, violent, arrogant, lustful, angry, envious of everyone, they abuse my presence within their own bodies and in the bodies of others.

Bhagavad Gita

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly

Solomon Schimmel, The Seven Dead

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

Jane Austen

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Ambrose Bierce