Evils Quotes

490 Evils quotes by 339 unique authors

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils. — Aristotle
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the… — John Quincy Adams
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. — Herman Melville
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum — Thomas a Kempis
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. — Ambrose Bierce
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops… — Skrillex
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to… — Thomas Browne
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing… — Epicurus
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are… — Ellen G. White
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. — Samuel Smiles
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life. — Heinrich Heine
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States… — W. E. B. Du Bois
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
Of two evils choose the prettier. — Carolyn Wells
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana

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