Vice and Virtue

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Laurie Anderson, in Vice and Virtue

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty

A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin, in Vice and Virtue

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine, in Vice and Virtue

The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk, in Vice and Virtue

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Charles Schulz, in Vice and Virtue

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer, in Vice and Virtue

He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca, in Vice and Virtue

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare, in Vice and Virtue

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw, in Vice and Virtue

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.

George Bernard Shaw, in Vice and Virtue

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue