#virtue

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vicious #virtue

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#exaggerated #fault #individual #racial #self-importance

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#falsehood #law #ornament #pretense #religion

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#moderation #pearl #running #silken #string

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#obedience #paganism #strength #virtue

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#highest wisdom #ill #mankind #perhaps #them

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#crime #heroism #infamy #religion #their

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race