Quotes about Vice

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of "might is right.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race. Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

For even the vice which by the force of habit and long continuance has become a second nature, had its origin in the will.

For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.

For God is unchangeable, and wholly proof against injury. Therefore the vice which makes those who are called His enemies resist Him, is an evil not to God, but to themselves. And to them it is an evil, solely because it corrupts the good of their nature.