Evils Quotes

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.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Umpires are necessary evils.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

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

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

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