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

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by James Q. Wilson

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

Society

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

Health

"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 believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."

Crime

"But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government."

Government

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

Politics

"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

"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

"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."

Peace