“Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.” GivingFirstsPersonsTwoPartySubjectsTruth IsVicesCreditEngagedInjuryIndulgeAbsentInjuredMonstrousIndulge InCalumnyCalumny Is Author:Herodotus
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!” MenLongHas BeensLawEvilMoralVirtueRightsSubjectsMoralityPrejudiceVicesPossessionCivil RightsCharmGood And EvilArbitraryDeprivedConstraintsYokeMoral LawFreedom To Choose Author:Flora Tristan
“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!” GivingHas BeensReasonUniverseAcceptingGenerationsSubjectsJudgingMethodVicesContemporaryRationalVisibleInnateThis GenerationBetween You And Me Author:Adelard of Bath
“It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.” MenSinSubjectsVicesDelightVanityShakesDrunkennessDrunkards Author:Walter Raleigh
“After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.” MenLyingImpossibleSubjectsHonestVicesTongueKnack Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.” LooksEyeRememberVirtueTroubleSubjectsModelsConsequenceMirrorsPatternsVicesExposedVice And Virtue Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.” PassionIndividualResultsSubjectsOughtFitJudgmentPrejudiceErrorsCongressVicesAbsurdFlightEnthusiasmFollyProductiveDefectsAssemblyLegislatureLiableFrailtyHastyPartialityControlling Power Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.” ActionMovingHeavenPresidentNiceWrittenSubjectsCryPositionKissingNewsMassMadSakeVicesPopsAssAnalysisInterviewsGovernorsSenatorsCoveringControversialMayorsRatingVice PresidentPowderPuffPosition Of PowerProbingExpletives Author:Dan Rather