Evils Quotes

490 quotes by 339 authors

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is… — Frederic Bastiat
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… — Alexander Hamilton
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it… — Herman Melville
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. — Pliny the Elder
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the… — James Madison
I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. — Pope Pius V
Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name… — Christopher Hitchens
If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less. — Ralph Nader
Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures. — Aldous Huxley
Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds. — Unknown Author
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more… — Benjamin Wiker
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in… — Georges Bataille
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. — Thomas Jefferson
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry

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