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#virtue

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #virtue




The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#least #most #often #own #person

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette


#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.


Adela Florence Nicolson


#desire #devotion #often #sated #virtue

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#virtue #virtue

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.


Joseph A. Schumpeter


#civilization #creates #educates #inevitably #interest

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.


Joseph Stiglitz


#complex #debate #had #issues #least

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.


Ron Suskind


#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.


Jim Talent


#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.


Nikola Tesla


#force #inseparable #like #man #matter

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.


Kingsley Amis


#criticism #employment #first #guide #itself






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