It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.” — Anonymous 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
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. — Robert Southey 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
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“This life is not for the faint of heart. We run from the situations that test our faith and resolve, shake us… — Nike Campbell-Fatoki 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
