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"Virtue in distress and vice in triumph has made atheists of mankind."
"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."
"Beneath the dusty tumbleweeds and the crack of gunfire, the American Wild West of the mid to late 1800s harbored a different kind of vice."
"Vice dependency... is how you ruin your life."
"Overeating is the vice of the whole human race."
"Not addicted to drugs, not addicted to pornography, not religious? Here's the absolute worst place you can be."
"Every virtue taken to his extreme becomes a vice."
"Everybody has some type of vice because we are human, and we all crave different things."
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mean, as to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace."
"The essential Vice, the utmost evil is pride."
"Pride leads to every other Vice. It is the complete anti-god State of Mind."
"Yes, the root of all evils is vain glory."
"I have no vices, which is also probably one more thing that I need to get because people that have them seem to be a lot happier."
"To call them sins... they're really the seven capital states of being... they're vices."
"If it weren't for greed, we'd suffer fewer of the other vices."
"As long as democracy is a human enterprise, which it is, then human virtue have as strong a chance as human vice to prevail."
"The main causes of depravity are desire, greed, and anger. Abandon all three."
"The cycle of shopping, searching, agonizing, and finally buying was my vice."
"If you have to choose a vice, it might as well be ice cream, right?"
"You get a rough crowd that leads to prostitution, to illegal alcohol, to gambling, to fights, to murders."
"Anger is a vice that we are often overcome by, a vice that sometimes possesses the spirit of vengeance."
"...my big vice was watching porn that was something that I found when I was like nine or ten..."
"Remember when Vice was sending Shane over to North Korea and doing like undercover real journalism? That was cool."
"A galaxy is as pleasurable as any vice."
"You don't encourage a bad vice by giving them a better method."
"Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle."
"The exercise of Virtues is concerned with means and therefore both virtue and vice are in our power."
"Spending is almost as much my vice as heroin."
"Nothing is worth obsessing over, what vices must you get rid of."
"Remember, vice is a monster of such awful mean that to be hated needs but to be seen, yet seen too oft familiar with his face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace."
"...we call our vices by the name of virtue."
"This is the biggest vice that Rock Island made."
"Gambling is associated with the vilest vice of the human heart: greed."
"We all tell ourselves the things we want to hear to make our vices seem more virtuous."
"Cowardice, licentiousness, and injustice are a disease in us."
"The heart, the heart issue is the heart issue, not the vices. I mean, the vice, it's just... yeah, it's just the kind of nature of the devil because it's the works of the devil."
"Even virtue itself, though it holds the highest place among human goods, its occupation is to wage perpetual war with vices, not those that are outside of us, but within."
"There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb."
"If your head flips, that's when the virtue becomes a vice."
"Everyone has their vice, so your vice might be losing 5K a year on cars because you don't go on holidays."
"Hypocrisy is vice's tip of the hat to virtue."
"Great temptations, great offenses, great bitterness, great anger, lust, great drugs whatever y'all want to put there."
"Vice knows no bounds, the people knowing no restraint."
"The gods are just and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."
"A lot of people will say chocolate is my main vice in life, which is saying."
"The son of Adam grows old, but greed and jealousy remain young inside a person."
"...there is this kind of super vice or super sin which is excessiveness."
"Everyone is born in sin, and everyone has vices. We don't have a right to judge one another."
"For after this cometh night, but vice shall not prevail against wisdom."
"Oh, thou invisible spirit of drink, if thou hast no other name to go by, let us call thee devil."
"Procrastination is the most important weapon of Shaitaan."
"If we want to overcome the vice, we need to name the virtue and we need to pray for the grace to act upon that virtue in my life."
"Greed, much like all other sins, is simply a human desire taken to the extreme."
"I think what the greatest vices is cruelty."
"The whole nature of the vices of this world is education."
"Cerro Gordo was a silver Boom Town fueled by booze and greed."
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
"Smoking is my only guilty pleasure, and to be honest, I never regretted it until that night."
"Pride and wrath, two very destructive sins."
"His vices were as magnificent as his virtues, and infinitely more picturesque."
"The desire and the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."
"At the turn of the 20th century, America was home to one of the most dangerous vice-built cities in the world: Portland, Oregon."
"Virtue may be admirable, but it is vice we find sexy."
"Pride is the universal sin, the great vice."
"If John Jacobs didn't have every vice known to man, you would have never heard of Jack Nicklaus."
"Some so-called vices actually turn out to be good for us."
"Pride is the never failing vice of fools."
"And thus I preach against the very vice I make my living out of - avarice."
"Las Vegas stood as a unique haven boasting legal gambling, prostitution, and liquor, all under the mafia's influence."
"If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue."
"Jealousy is a vice; it's not an emotion that gets respect."
"I felt enlightened in a way; it realistically depicts a grown man who let his vices take over him and the consequences it has in his personal life."
"The Big Apple of the late 19th and early 20th century was Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into one."
"Whenever virtue declines and vice is predominant, I myself incarnate in this world."
"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified."
"Pride is the worst demon there is."
"In a world of vice and sin, the wicked go unpunished, but not for long."
"Greed and manipulation is a lethal combination; it leads to lies, deceit, and betrayal for one person's personal satisfaction."
"A curse on cowardice and a curse on greed, they shatter chivalry, their vice destroys virtue."
"Pride is the devil, don't let it take over."
"Wine has drowned more men than the sea."
"I knew every story, an addiction and sin from the people that had raised me."
"Silence is golden, very much. But then too much silence, too much of anything, becomes a vice."
"Evil manifests itself in the opposite of virtue, it manifests itself in things like lust and greed, envy, selfishness, a lack of self-control, pride, anger."
"I think vice used to do it, but I like their style of reporting."
"All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport and backbiting, the pleasures of power, of hatred."