Vices Quotes

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

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

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.