Evils Quotes

Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Thomas a Kempis

Imaginary evils are incurable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Imaginary, Incurable

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Freedom, Cure, Newly

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft

Progress, Taken, Toward

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

Freedom, Expand, Rob

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

Two, Between, Both

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

Evil, Remember, Two

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius

Good, God, Proceed

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay

Him, Seen, Tyranny

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.
David Viscott

Good, Themselves, Though

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley

Politics, Two, Between

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Amy Lowell

Everything, Easy, Quit

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

Him, Negative, Social

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore

Two, Understand, Voting

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.
John Nelson Darby

Nothing, Rest, Actions

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Meg White

Sad, Two, Pretty

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Great, Men, Wrong

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.
John Moody

Understand, Fact, Both

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
James Meade

Great, War, Two

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.
Georges Bataille

God, Place, Means

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.
Morarji Desai

Life, Food, Human

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

Power, Sometimes, Show

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

Best, Between, Lives

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
Chen Guangcheng

Women, Children, Cannot

Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells

Two, Choose, Prettier

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.
Simon Conway Morris

Past, Human, Small

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor

Technology, Today, Important

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 Trevelyan

Sympathy, Greatest, Understand

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter

Character, Corruption, Between

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