Evils Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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

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

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.

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

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

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.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

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

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.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

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.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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

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.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.