Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-260] of 368 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.~ Menander Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.~ H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.~ H. L. Mencken May God prevent us from becoming 'right-thinking men' -- that is to say, men who agree perfectly with their own police.~ Thomas Merton The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart Mill Let us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.~ Edna St. Vincent Millay None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John Milton The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.~ John Milton Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.~ Charles Mingus The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.~ Mohammed Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ Molière If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.~ Molière Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.~ Thomas S. Monson The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.~ John Viscount Morley It is important therefore that in these schools the precepts of morality and religion should be inculcated, and habits of subordination and obedience formed. One of the greatest blessings which the State can confer upon her children is to instill into their minds at an early period moral and religious truths. ... Thousands of unfortunate children are growing up in perfect ignorance of their moral and religious duties. Their parents equally unfortunate know not how to instruct them, and have not the opportunity or ability of placing them under the care of those who could give them instruction. The State, in the warmth of her affection and solicitude for their welfare, must take charge of those children and place them in schools where their minds can be enlightened and their hearts can be trained to virtue.~ Archibald D. Murphey People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.~ Benito Mussolini It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission, and welds them into unity.~ Benito Mussolini Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.~ Harriet Nelson My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.~ Huey P. Newton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print