355 Quotes About Vices

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

Vice is basically the love of failure.