Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
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
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
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing — Edmund Burke 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
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
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
Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that… — Christy Mathewson Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
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'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
My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — George Washington 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
“in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state… — Thomas Paine 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
“Hey." Her host grabbed her by the back of the jacket and hauled her upright. "I'm not fishing you out again if… — Cherry Adair Copy Share Image
“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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