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“The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.”
Source: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
“The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.”
“The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.”
“The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.”
“The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.”
“The vices of some men are magnificent.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches
“The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.”
“The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.”
“The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.”
Source: Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]
“The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.”
“The vicious circle is perfect: foreign debt and foreign investment oblige us to multiply exports that they themselves devour. The task can't be accomplished with gentlemanly manners. To fulfill their function as hostages of foreign prosperity, Latin American workers must be held prisoner, either inside or outside of the jails.”
Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“The vicious circle of life is employment”
“The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.”
Source: Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged)
“The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and the prejudicial media, change would be quite easy. All it takes is courageous, fearless, unique individuals to make substantive change in this world. Unfortunately, there are very few courageous and fearless people.”
“The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.”
“the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.”
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”
“The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.”
“The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.”
“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell.”
“The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”
“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.”
“The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
“The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.”
“The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.”
Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
“The victims I’ve worked with taught me that individuals want to believe they are entitled to justice. My community taught me that when the choice is clear-cut enough, so do entire counties.
We have become profoundly discouraged about whether we have such choices. My own experience is that we do, if we are willing to pay the price. We need better data to make decisions based on performance, but getting that data is a matter of passing the right laws requiring crunchable statistics and mandatory public reports. The rest is on us. If Tip O’Neil was right, if all politics is local, then our local district attorneys are the place to start. Crime is local. What we do about it is as close as the nearest voting booth.”
Source: Sex Crimes: Then and Now: My Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators
“The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.”
“The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the preeminent US-based center for detailing communist crimes, cites the figure of 100 million deaths. Numerous others agree and could be listed here. Dr. Malia aptly noted that the communist record offers the 'most colossal case of political carnage in history.”
Source: The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration
“The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.”
“The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.”
“The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.”
“The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.”
“The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world from beyond the barrier of what happened. They find themselves unable to communicate their condition to those who remained at home, resenting civilians for their blind innocence.
The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015”
“The victims of right-wing violence are typically immigrants, Muslims, and people of color, while the targets of environmental and animal rights activism are among “the most powerful corporations on the planet” — hence the state’s relative indifference to the one and obsession with the other.
The broader pattern helps to explain one partial exception to the left/right gap in official scrutiny—namely, the domestic aspects of the “War on Terror.” Al Qaeda is clearly a reactionary organization. Like much of the American far right, it is theocratic, anti-Semitic, and patriarchal. Like Timothy McVeigh, the 9/11 hijackers attacked symbols of institutional power, killing a great many innocent people to further their cause. But while the state’s bias favors the right over the left, the Islamists were the wrong kind of right-wing fanatic. These right-wing terrorists were foreigners, they were Muslim, and above all they were not white. And so, in retrospect and by comparison, the state’s response to the Oklahoma City bombing seems relatively restrained—short-lived, focused, selectively targeting unlawful behavior for prosecution. The government’s reaction to the September 11th attacks has been something else entirely — an open-ended war fought at home and abroad, using all variety of legal, illegal, and extra-legal military, police, and intelligence tactics, arbitrarily jailing large numbers of people and spying on entire communities of immigrants, Muslims, and Middle Eastern ethnic groups. At the same time, law enforcement was also obsessively pursuing — and sometimes fabricating—cases against environmentalists, animal rights activists, and anarchists while ignoring or obscuring racist violence against people of color. What that shows, I think, is that the left/right imbalance persists, but sometimes other biases matter more.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.”
“The victims of the Lahaina disaster are getting an education on how their county, state and federal governments truly are!”
“The victor belongs to the spoils.”
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so”
“The victor is often vanquished by his own success.”
“The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.”
“The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.”
“The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects