A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster

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

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.
Noah Webster

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.
McGeorge Bundy

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Tryon Edwards

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

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.
Edmund Burke

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

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

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.
John Bates Clark

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.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

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

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.
Fanny Kemble

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.
Charles E. Trevelyan

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

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.
Kevin Bacon

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus

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