Evils Quotes

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Umpires are necessary evils.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.