Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it? — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.” — Tricia Springstubb Copy Share Image
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness?… — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil,… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“Aristotle very famously said in his Politics I.V.8 that some people are born to be slaves. He meant that some people are… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“The Thai people are pathologically shy. Combine that with a reluctance to lose face by giving a wrong answer, and it makes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Despite shared language, ethnicity, and culture, alliances nurtured deep, long-standing hostilities toward one another, the original source of which was often unknown.… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
When women negotiate they are often viewed as pushy, but if you think about the way women are viewed at large: we… — Jessica Bennett Copy Share Image
“Mornings after sucked. Walks of shame were a necessary evil, but that didn’t mean I enjoyed shimmying back into the same trollop… — Deborah Wilde Copy Share Image
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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