Sentences with phrase «without virtue»

Experience is all very well but without the virtue of skills, experienced can not be gained.

And to me it is clear that we must now say that freedom has no meaning without virtue, nor rights without duties.

That doesn't in any way mean that it is a device without its virtues, worth taking a look at as a sign of future potential if perhaps little else.

Madison said that «to suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.»

Politically, it's a dream of social justice without virtue.

Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments

By definition, the inherited norms can not be questioned prior to their enactment: one is caught in sin without virtue of consent.

Classically this was embodied in the emphasis that the virtue of prudence can not be acquired without the virtues of courage and temperance, and that courage and temperance require prudence.

His call to a fresh «innocence of becoming» and «newness of life» is at least a faint echo of the biblical prophets and St. Paul, only without the virtues of love and hope.

He gave himself over to luxury and extravagance and his patronage to women without virtue....

Even Piven, normally worth a few laughs in any of his roles, is sadly without virtue until the outtakes shown during the end credits.

The film isn't entirely without virtues.

Keanu Reeves (John Wick), in an uncharacteristically villainous role as the owner of the squalid motel where Jesse lives, is deeply repellant as a man without virtue, and very watchable.

Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.

At a recent comparative ethics conference Professor Xiaobing Liu noted the Chinese proverb, «Virtue without competence is always better than competence without virtue» («Latest Reform on the Legal Ethics Assessment Mechanism in the Chinese Legal Profession Admission System»).

The Horse Whisperer is not without its virtues.

This very instant reflects hell, and the horror of being without the Virtues, and Love of God.

Rising from the shell of the stalled riverside headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's financial regulator could be accused of insensitivity for choosing as its new home a site that became a toxic symbol of the banking crisis, but the building is not without virtue: it comfortably surpasses the proposed nearly zero energy building standard while achieving the onerous Breeam «Outstanding» rating for sustainability.