He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Tag: virtue admiration classic-insult vice
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah BankheadIf this is vise I want no virtue.
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I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.
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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
G.K. ChestertonTag: christianity idealism virtues vice modern-world modernity
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireTag: evil work greed need boredom labor vice want weariness
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
Oscar WildeTag: vice
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand RussellTo be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
Benjamin FranklinNever support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton WilderTag: morality virtue sinners vice
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