Evils Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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

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.

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.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

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

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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.

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.