Virtue Quotes

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.