"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Explore more quotes by James Q. Wilson

"I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care."

Health

"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."

Consequence

"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."

Politics

"I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape."

Will

"A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism."

Government

"Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character."

Society

"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."

Mistake

"There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now."

Politics

"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."

Politics

"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."

Nature