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The Vice
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men's room whenever an important illegal decision was made»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
Decision,
Management,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, George Bush, illegal, managed, President George Bush, The Vice, vice president
«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Mankind,
Military,
Vice
| Keywords:
benefactors, bestow, destroyers, exalted, The Vice
«MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addicted, afflicted, mugwump, The Vice
«It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
a million, a million times, bigness, mile, square, square mile, square miles, The Vice, thousand million, thousand times, vulgar
«Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
feed, littleness, narrow, pretext, pretexts, The Vice, tyrannies
«My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived»
«It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color»
«Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice off the top»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
err, medicine, skins, The Vice
