The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such,… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Only I knew the truth—I didn’t enjoy killing. It was nothing more than a necessary evil in my world. My sin was… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
“Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Not necessarily. Zobrist may be a pariah in the medical community, but he probably has a legion of devout fans of his… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily to prepare financial reports and survive… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a person, group, or a government is speaking of necessary evils they must first realize that no evil is truly necessary.… — Aaron Lee Copy Share Image
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Besides, the “necessary evil” that Lazar was trying to pass off as acceptable was so far beyond the line of righteousness that… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Sadly, in our technological, impersonal, and avaricious consumer society, people merely hold on to jobs. They put in their time, leave at… — Robert Dykstra Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you're an intelligent extraterrestrial, concerned only with verifiable truths. You discover a species that has divided itself into thousands -… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
A lot of companies think sales is, like, a necessary evil. Sales is really the most noble part of the business because… — Greg Gianforte Copy Share Image
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A very long time ago, I accepted that travel is just a necessary evil, and unlike many things in my life, I… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“The golden watch has become the other end of golden handcuffs. We now look at steady jobs as less of a goal… — Jonathan Acuff Copy Share Image
“The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music. What if necessary evil had an… — Tricia Springstubb Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“It wasn't always the easiest conversation, having someone else point out your flaws, but it was a necessary evil if we wanted… — Rachel E. Carter Copy Share Image
Sexual expression within a marriage is not an option or an extra. It is certainly not, as it has sometimes been considered,… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
