Evils Quotes

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

Two, Before, Between

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.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

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

Hope, Reality, Worst

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

Pain, Happened, Cost

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.
Helen Keller

Science, Human, May

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson

Themselves, While, Mankind

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.
Helen Keller

Human, May, Found

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

Two, Choice, Both

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.
Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Sure, Ourselves

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

Evil, Two, Choosing

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

Two, Before, Try

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West

Two, Between, Tried

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato

Nature, Good, Evil

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.
Plato

Soul, Last, Worst

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Anger, Mind, Greed

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

Others, Liberal, Wishes

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

Wisdom, Greatest, Liberty

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Time, Money, Freedom

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fear, Greatest, Him

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

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

Time, Greatest, Expect

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

Against, Among, Prince

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

Money, Greed, Once

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom, Evil, Real

Of two evils, choose neither.
Charles Spurgeon

Two, Choose, Neither

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.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

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

Future, Past, Hard

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

God, Free, Attribute

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

Real, Become, Soon

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

Expect, Apply, Remedies

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