Evils Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

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.