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There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody.
Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.