Evils Quotes
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
John Nelson Darby
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
Dean Koontz
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
John Moody
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
Kevin Bacon
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
David Viscott
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas Reed
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman