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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Umpires are necessary evils.
Doug Harvey

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

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