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. . . VIGILANCE - It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. --John Philpot Curran (17501817) Irish judge. Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) & note: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --Wendell Phillips (18111884) American abolitionist and reformer. [In 1852.] -  . . see: "WICKED" To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. ----- turpitude [TUR-puh-tood]; -tyood, noun: 1. Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; depravity. 2. A base act. Ex.: They based their action on a clause in the uniform player contract which says players must 'conform to standards of good citizenship and good moral character' and disallows 'engaging in acts of moral turpitude.' --Ira Berkow, "Go Ahead, Choke the Boss -- Only in the N.B.A.," _New York Times_ [5 March 1998] . . see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. --Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) American poet and short-story writer. ;void(0)) VILLAINS . . see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links see "DECEPTION" for related links Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. - O Villain, villain, smiling damned villain! . . . That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1600-1601], Act I, Scene 5, Line 106 Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile: Filths savour but themselves. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Lear_ [1605-1606] - . . It's like the thing with violent video games now. What violent video game did Jack the Ripper play? Did Hitler play Risk in high school and that's why he wanted to take over the world? It's insane logic. --Drew Carey (1958 ) American actor and comedian. "Maxim," interview [September 1999]. - It's early in the morning, six o'clock. Everything is quiet. My wife is asleep. I lie in bed, looking at the bookshelves surrounding me. . . I look up at three shelves of hardbound black volumes, the scripts of my movies, the titles in gold. They overflow onto a fourth shelf every movie I've done, good and bad, in chronological order. . . . I see Spartacus fighting the Romans; Einar slashing away with the Vikings; so many westerns, shooting it out, bullets flying, swords clashing. My God! How many people I've killed in movies! Rivers of blood! Is that what people want to see? I used to watch the TV reports on Vietnam and be appalled by some of the scenes. That was for real, not make-believe. I guess violence is a very strong part of the human animal. --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916 ) American film actor and producer. _The Ragman's Son_ [1988], Chapter 43 - Beware the fury of a patient man. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681] When there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. In _Young India_ [11 August 1920]. Those who find America an especially violent and oppressive country ("Amerika") have apparently never read the history of England or France, Germany or Russia, Indonesia or Burundi, Turkey or Uganda. --Eugene D. Genovese (1930 ) American historian. Force, unaided by judgement, collapses through its own weight. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Odes_ There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. The man who lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. --John Tobin (17701804) English dramatist. _The Honey Moon_ [1805], act II, sc. 1 ----- bellicose [BEL-ih-kohs], adjective: Inclined to or favoring war or strife; warlike; pugnacious. ;void(0)) VIRGINITY . . see: "THE BODY" Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.' --Lillian Carter (18981983) U.S. matriarch mother of American President. Quoted in _Life_, January 1981. Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was, When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. --Samuel Daniel (15621619) English poet and dramatist. "Delia" [1592] sonnet 32 This temple [Curicancha, near Cuzco] was more than four hundred paces in circuit, entirely surrounded by a strong wall, .. Within there were four houses ... At the doors of these houses porters were stationed to keep guard over the virgins, many of whom were daughters of great lords, the most beautiful and charming that could be found. They remained in the temple until they became old. If one of them had knowledge of a man, they killed her by burying her alive; and the same penalty was suffered by the man. --Pedro de Cieza de Leσn _Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru_ [1550], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major note that: Curicancha meant 'the place of gold', this being the richest of all the temples in Peru, with doors and doorways of gold, figures adorned with gold and precious stones and 'a vast quantity of treasure.' When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Latin: Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.] --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian. end page | UGLY - UNICORNS | UNHAPPINESS | UNIONS - USELESS | VACATION - VENGENCE | VENICE - VICTORY | VIGILANCE - VIRGINITY | VIRTUE - VULGARITY | WAGES - WAR & PEACE | WAR (THE CIVIL) - WAR (THE REVOLUTIONARY) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WAR (VIETNAM) | WAR (WORLD WAR I) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WASHINGTON (D.C.) - WEAK/WEAKNESS | WEALTH - WEASELS | WEATHER - WELLS (H.G.) | WEST (THE OLD/WILD) - WILDE (OSCAR) | WILL - WINNING | WINTER - WISDOM | WISHING - WIVES | WOMEN - WOMEN'S LIB | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - WORDS | WORK - WORLD | WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON DISASTER, 11 SEPTEMB | WORRY - WRONG | WRITING | YESTERDAY - ZOOS | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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