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
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“he explained that elements of his behaviour in front of the media were a necessary evil: a vital cog in the psychological… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
“Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of… — Gerald R. Ford 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
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
“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
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully 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
“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
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
For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. — Ed Sheeran 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
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
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
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
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
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
“As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.” — Tricia Springstubb Copy Share Image