Famous quotes containing the words virtue and/or system:
“Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident—the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)