“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
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .” — Howard Zinn 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
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
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
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
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker 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
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
“In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with… — Tana French 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
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils… — Doron Zeilberger 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
“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
“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
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
You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka 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
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
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
“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
