Evils Quotes

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.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.