Evils Quotes

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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.

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.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

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.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.