Evils Quotes

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Read, Reading, Gave

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton

Fight, Racism, Two

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

Become, Wishes, Affairs

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. Forster

Money, Rather, Buys

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.
Harry S. Truman

Best, Two, Impossible

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
Louis Dudek

Two, Sick, Second

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.
Sophocles

Dead, Less, Possible

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson

Government, Necessary, Exist

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

Men, War, Ambition

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.
Herodotus

Fear, Happen, Might

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus

Rather, Ignorant

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.
Dick Gregory

Through, Country, America

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Sophocles

Lives, Dying, Among

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

Good, Surely, Darkest

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Greatest, Ourselves, Flow

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.
Victoria Woodhull

Dreams, Great, Society

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.
Aeschylus

Experience, Everything, Friends

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Others, Ourselves, Pity

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Aeschylus

Same, Trouble, Seen

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.
Isaiah Berlin

Men, Positive, Live

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais

Mother, Ignorance

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig von Mises

Bad, Worst, Mankind

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

May, Two, Again

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

Greatest, Political, Currency

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

Self, State, Tree

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
Dean Koontz

Great, Two, Said

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas Reed

Hope, Greatest, Delusions

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow

Money, War, Ability

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr

Reality, Regret, Moment

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Thomas a Kempis

Two, Less, Chosen

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