Pastoral Resources

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?