Evils Quotes

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.

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?

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.