Evils Quotes

490 quotes by 354 authors

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and… — Kevin Bacon
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do… — Roseanne Barr
I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to… — Roseanne Barr
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in… — Joseph Addison
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a… — Aeschylus
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without… — Edmund Burke
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all… — Anna Quindlen
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson
Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits. — Sun Tzu
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me… — Stonewall Jackson
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. — Thucydides

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