Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Augustus Hare

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

Benjamin Disraeli

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Alan Dershowitz

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Al Gore

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Charles Colson

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Charles Darwin

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Sandy Lazzaroni

We're competing. That's something we haven't done in the past. The whole morale of the team is different.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.