Evils Quotes

490 Evils quotes by 339 unique authors

They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews… — Napoleon Bonaparte
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we… — Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively.… — Theodore Roosevelt
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends… — Saint Basil
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a… — William Osler
No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated… — Saint Basil
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are… — John Dewey
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime. — H. L. Mencken
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who… — Henri Nouwen
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way. — Hunter S. Thompson
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life… — Charles Caleb Colton
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the… — Izaak Walton
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. — Jerry Garcia
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert… — Baltasar Gracian
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet… — Dick Gregory
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral… — Alan Dershowitz
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. — Howard Dean

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