Sentence examples for private vices from inspiring English sources

"Private Vices, Publick Benefits" read the book's subtitle.

(The view is a variant of Mandeville's in "The Fable of the Bees," that  private vices make for public benefits).

Bentham's contemporary William Blackstone celebrated the fact that "private vices" were beyond the jurisdiction of the state.

Smith believed that he had found, in competitive markets, an instrument capable of converting "private vices" (such as selfishness) into "public virtues" (such as maximum production).

Her Secret Memoirs... of Several Persons of Quality (1709) was a chronicle seeking to expose the private vices of Whig ministers.

Just as neoliberal ideology reduces all humans to homo economicus, the Koch ideology does not really care about ethnicity, statehood or private vices.

We are deliberately not allowed to make easy choices between public virtue and private vice.

For another, it was not a private vice which brought it low, as the Bonwiller story would imply.

Today, what passes for debate has occluded the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual stakes of aesthetic experience, which assumes the odor of a minor private vice.

This eloquent and witty book does much to rescue Victorian Britain from its traditional image as a place of stolid public rectitude coupled with private vice.

Some conservative groups oppose the bill because of the horse-racing exemption; libertarians object to government regulation of what they consider a private vice.