All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing — Edmund Burke 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
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Government at its best is a necessary evil; at its worst, an intolerable one.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke — Call Of Duty 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“most people interpret this assertion is that mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all.… — Ed Catmull 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
Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then… — Shelby Steele 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“A mature person has the integrity to be alone. And when a mature person gives love, he gives without any strings attached… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil. — Richard Whately 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
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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