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
Virtue
Capitalism
Interest
Logic
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
Virtue
Community
Vice
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile
Men
Virtue
Crime
Popularity
Will
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
People
Virtue
Vices
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Saint Francis de Sales
Virtue
Reputation
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis de Sade
Virtue
First
Order
Vice
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade
Happiness
Virtue
Choice
Lies
Vice
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Mark Rutherford
Virtue
Worry
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin Rush
Virtue
Liberty
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War
Virtue
State
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Ernestine Rose
Women
Virtue
Blind
Man
Wrong
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue
Hypocrisy
Vice
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue
Vices
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women
Virtue
Nothing
Quiet
Reputation
Tenderness
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue
Self
Vices
Word