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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

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 principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Ambrose Bierce

Here I am walking down the street with a target on my chest because my dog has a muzzle that says, 'this is a fierce vicious animal and you have to be afraid of this dog'.

Steve Barker

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

Bob Gill

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

Peggy Venable

We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or justify an unwarranted and vicious attack on another human being.

Gloria Allred

I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.

Jane Elliot

I was never a vicious person, but I was indifferent, ... I wanted the immediate approval of the people I was with and I didn't care what they did.

Bruce Davis

If they have to lose their job and also face severe uncertainty of their asset value, then the combination of the two would be very negative for consumer sentiment. We would see a very severe spiral, a vicious spiral. So I'm very concerned about this possibility.

Yasushi Okada

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

What's happening is that consumers are worried about losing their jobs, and if consumers worry about losing their jobs, they spend less money -- so the economy slows down, so they lose their jobs -- it's a vicious circle.

Paul Donovan

Right now it's very clay-like soil that holds a lot of water and gets real spongy. The clay soil holds the water so the fields stay wet. We can't mow it and then it's unsafe to play on. It's a vicious cycle.

Dan Teravest

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

Pope Leo Xiii

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

Aidan White

I was warned that Mr. Thomas and the Garden would launch a campaign to smear me, and I am not surprised, nor will I be, at any false and vicious accusations that they may spread about me and my family. This is all a diversion. In court, they will have no choice but to deal with the real issues of my complaint.

Anucha Browne Sanders

What the current deficit does is make the dollar vulnerable. It means we could see a vicious cycle, where a declining dollar makes U.S. assets less attractive to foreign investors, which weakens our assets further, which puts further pressure on the dollar.

Lara Rhame

To vie for a market share, these companies have to try very means to cut the price of their products, which brought about the vicious competition among them.

Zhang Ji

I've heard from people who have said some of the nicest things I've ever heard in my career and I've heard vicious things, ... But, hey, we're doing the same thing to the movies every week, so if I can't take it I'd better deal.

Richard Roeper

The mosquitoes are horrible for one thing and there are dogs and cats everywhere, ... The dogs are vicious and hungry and roaming in packs. And at night I can hear the looters. I've heard gun shots and glass breaking.

Peggy Andrews

At a time when the Palestinian Authority is trying to maintain calm, this murder intentionally aims at renewing the vicious cycle of violence.

Mahmud Abbas

Both my father and grandfather were entrepreneurs, in Cleveland. I was exposed to startups and buyouts and management from a young age. In fact, when I graduated, I had offers at Microsoft, Sun, IBM -- but my heart was in Vicious Systems.

Jim Kunevicius

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger

This was a vicious attack on a clearly marked UNHCR bus carrying civilians.

Dennis Mcnamara

We're playing with a target on our back. This is a vicious, vicious league.

Steve Rebholz

This is the most reckless and vicious prosecution that I have ever witnessed. There has been no confession whatsoever.

Andre Grant

If Democrats are doing it, it is just as wrong. This is not a personal attack, and it is not vicious. I am just bringing to light what goes on in this building.

Sen. Rita Days

To be accused of burning the American flag when I have done nothing of the sort is the kind of low, vicious and untrue attack that turns many voters away from politics entirely. It's not just negative campaigning; it's lying.

Don Zimmerman

Murder for hire takes time and planning to carry out. That's why it took time to solve this case. This is one of the most vicious crimes because a totally innocent victim was killed purely for personal gain.

Kym Worthy

She told me she still talks to him all the time and considers him one of her best friends. And it isn't nearly as vicious as the press made it out to be.

Whitney Mcnally

The subject of a vicious and false attack. Those are the kinds of things people should be looking for and be very careful and concerned about.

David Brock

The cost shift burden for employers is becoming greater. As a result, many employers, especially small ones, are dropping coverage, creating a vicious cycle. It is a problem that must be addressed.

Bill Kramer

We have to have awareness for the soap opera. It's a vicious circle, the way it works.

Stephen Walkom

There are stray dogs running around that are very vicious. I'm very upset and I'm hopping there is somebody out there who can help me.

Jacqueline Williams

Originally the call was that this dog followed them home before it turned vicious on them and bit them. At the time, the dog had no collar and we don't know who the owner is.

Capt. Todd Peney

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.

Bell Hooks

We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.

Yajur Veda

Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

Chris Hartley

She is vicious. She is a beast. She's probably my second-best shooter. Those two girls ... if anybody comes to play, Dee Dee and Kelly are coming to play.

Ron Edmonds

Sid is someone I turn to in times of need. When things get bad, when times are rough, I say to myself: "What would Sid Vicious have done in this situation?", and then I choose from the lengthy list of possibilities (time-permitting): (1) Pass out, or (2) Break something.

Sid Vicious

You cannot reduce to dollars and cents the losses New Yorkers have suffered from the vicious World Trade Center attack, just as there is no way to put a dollar value on the heroism and determination of our response, ... But to obtain the resources we will need to rebuild and create a better and stronger New York City, we must try to understand in dollar terms, what the attack cost our economy.

Alan G. Hevesi

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Richard Burton

Those irresponsible owners are not going to be the ones to take out the additional insurance, that are going to put up a vicious dog sign that can be read from 100 feet away. They're not going to buy a muzzle to be put on the dog.

Kevin Boyle

They're becoming vicious. But it's not because they're hungry and they want to eat people. They're scared. They're stressed out; they've been living on the roof. And they don't know what you're here for.

Crystal Smith

The appropriate punishment for ... these vicious acts ... will be available in the federal system.

Charles Hynes

Most of the district health officers have to pay bribes to get promotions and postings, and they in turn collect bribes from their staff and patients. It's a vicious cycle.

Hanumappa Sudarshan

If they lose the election they blame the leader then they undermine the leader, then they lose again, it's a vicious circle. If they replace the leader now it confirms the party is in disarray.

Nelson Wiseman

This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.

Gloria Allred

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

William Bennett

Everybody experiences stress. The key is how effectively people deal with and manage stress. People who turn to comfort food or smoking are starting a vicious cycle. Their attempts to reduce stress can actually lead to health problems that result in increased stress.

Russ Newman

His name was getting announced all the time over the loudspeaker. He was going sideline to sideline making plays, making vicious hits. Every time I watched the Ravens after that, I couldn't help but watch him.

Patrick Kerney

I think one of the biggest changes would be the mandatory fines ? $500 for a first-time offense for a vicious animal.

Paul Schultz

We are caught in a vicious cycle of selling that only resolution on Iraq can break.

Gert De Mesure

We have reached the point of saturation — a vicious revolving door of never-ending seasons. Children can't even take a couple of months' hiatus from a sport for fear of falling behind their peers and being excluded from teams the following seasons. Those elite teams, all those trophies — that's what the parents want.

Fred Engh

Hate music has really become a very, very essential highway for how these hate movements are reaching people internationally. They have taken music, which has been the message of love and peace, and have really given it a very vicious spin.

Paul Goldenberg

You perpetrated a vicious, sustained and dreadful attack on a vulnerable woman, alone at night in the concrete stairwell of a multi-storey car park.

Peter Fox

DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Ambrose Bierce

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the device that exploded in Brixton with terrible consequences last Saturday.

Alan Fry

The other candidates were kind of vicious on Jos coming from the school district.

Nick Pacheco

There are no intermediate guidelines for officials to step in before a dog is declared vicious.

Jeff Rosenthal

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 expect that you are going to see people now asking for Wisconsin to reinstate the death penalty because, if these statements are true, this man's as vicious as they come. I've already heard that argument being made on the radio.

Gerald Boyle

That same muscle goes all the way down to the mid-back, and just as the top part of the muscle is tight, the bottom part is weak and atrophied. This sets up a vicious cycle.

Janice Novak

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Robert Blair

I never go out with the intent to hurt someone or to be vicious. But I know I'm an intense player, and I know I'm a physical player. I have to be. If I'm not, I'm not helping my team.

Tyler Fleck

I cannot express how I feel about the loss of our son. He can't watch his boys grow up because of what these vicious, selfish punks did. He no longer can say, 'I love you Mom.'

Gwen Davis

It's disturbing that someone can let off six shots in a packed club and can escape without being arrested, ... The hip-hop community doesn't trust the police to confide info to them, and in turn the police have done little to make us feel like they give a damn about our safety. It's a vicious cycle.

Elliott Wilson

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Elaine Pagels

It's almost a vicious cycle.

Edward Mcauley