Evils Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of 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.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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

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.

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

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.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

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.

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.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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

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.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.