Quotes for Virtue

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Abraham Cowley

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Thomas Aquinas

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

Grace Poe

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

Charles Murray

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Rush Limbaugh

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

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

Adam Dell

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Emil Ludwig

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

Lynn Coady

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents.

Damian Green