Evils Quotes

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

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.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

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

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

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

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

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

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

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.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

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

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.

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.

Of two evils, choose neither.