(793 quotes found)
“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
Hannah Arendt
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it”
George Bernard Shaw
“Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.”
Johnny Carson
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
Adam Smith
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue”
Moliere
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life.”
Joseph Addison
“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it”
George Washington
