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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation -- Avril Lavigne
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. -- Benjamin Franklin
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. -- James T. Walsh
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. -- Thomas Malthus
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. -- Avril Lavigne
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. -- Ann Landers
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. -- Charles Krauthammer
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum. -- Sid Vicious
Be virtuous and you will be vicious. -- Samuel Butler
Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them. -- Xun Zi
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. -- William S. Burroughs
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. -- James F. Cooper
My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip! -- Craig Shoemaker
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. -- Howard Stern
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. -- Lord Byron
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black. -- Alan Watts
I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle. -- James Surowiecki
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it. -- Dick Gregory
Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler! -- Larry Zbyszko
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too. -- Don Van Vliet
I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson -- Rufus Wainwright
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. -- Benjamin Franklin
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. -- William Shakespeare
It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy. -- Dee Dee Ramone
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?" -- Bob Brookmeyer
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there. -- Mac Davis
I've been associated with Macmillan for over 45 years. I'd like to thank them for their continued commitment to my backlist and I look forward to continuing to work with them as they publish my next novel, 'Vicious Circle' in 2013. -- Wilbur Smith
Oh, sheez, what's Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How'd the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition. -- Billy Idol
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass. -- Chuck Klosterman
Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn't share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I'll have to fight him? (Arik) You'd never win. Mr. Cuddles cheats. You think he's just a pushover teddy bear, but he's vicious, I tell you. Vicious. (Geary) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear. -- John Lydon
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
She hesitated for a moment longer, then tentatively placed her fingers in his. Her hand was hot and dry and so fragile-seeming that James cradled it gingerly. The next moment, she squeezed so hard his eyes widened.Fragile lady be damned. He squeezed back spitefully"Vicious minx. -- Y.S. Lee
Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus?" A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. "Looks like you lost," the voice continued with a chuckle. "Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets. -- Angie Sage
I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do. -- Dave Gahan
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation. -- Jeff Weiner
Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. -- Paula Abdul
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. -- Frank Sinatra
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. -- William Bennett
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. -- Hunter S. Thompson
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle. -- Kailash Satyarthi
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things. -- Howard Stern
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. -- Stephen Covey
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. -- Nigella Lawson
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. -- Michael Caine
I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important. -- Don Rickles
Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem. -- Ronnie Wood
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence. -- Scilla Elworthy
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
I'm a very vicious critic of myself. -- Dave Matthews
Human nature is not of itself vicious. -- Thomas Paine
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious. -- Winston Graham
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers. -- Jonathan Swift
Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth -- Thomas Hobbes
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. -- Samuel Johnson
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us. -- Philip Larkin
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious -- Kathryn Stockett
Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. -- John William Fletcher
Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious! -- Meg Cabot
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. -- Eugene Ionesco
There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits -- Pope Leo XIII
Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits. -- Pope Leo XIII
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. -- Laurence J. Peter
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. -- Alexander Hamilton
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. -- Victor Hugo
We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious. -- Prince Andrew
The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious. -- Frank Luntz
People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things. -- Rutina Wesley
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. -- Joseph Addison
Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable. -- Junichiro Koizumi
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage. -- Jack Vance
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. -- Ayn Rand
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite. -- Horace
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small -- Henry Kissinger
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. -- Noam Chomsky
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. -- Maureen Dowd
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. -- Erica Jong
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party." -- James F. Cooper
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. -- Ben Jonson
The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle. -- Paul Martin
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. -- Tori Amos
No one girl or woman deserves to feel like a vicious attack was her fault. -- Sufe Bradshaw
There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women. -- Nicolle Wallace
This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference. -- Yesenia Barkley
Payne Stewart was a vicious competitor. He only played to win, ... Only God can change hearts. -- Paul Azinger
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. -- Alexander Pope
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. -- Richard Burton
There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.' (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Take her away; for she hath lived too long, To fill the world with vicious qualities. -- William Shakespeare
I monitor haters' comments. I am aware of vicious rumors, but I am not afraid anymore. -- Jay Park
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. -- David Starr Jordan
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. -- Anne Rice
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53) -- Jaclyn Moriarty
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. -- Jonathan Kozol
The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that. -- Deepak Chopra
The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists. -- James Purdy
Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between. -- James Toback
I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. -- Alexa Chung
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious -- Madeline Miller
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation, -- Jeff Weiner

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