Evils Quotes

490 Evils quotes by 339 unique authors

Of two evils, choose neither. — Charles Spurgeon
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. — William Howard Taft
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits. — Matt Taibbi
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as… — Harry S. Truman
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we… — Swami Vivekananda
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. — Daniel Webster
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. — H.G. Wells
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. — Mae West
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. — Oscar Wilde
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. — Henny Youngman
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding… — J D Salinger
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? — Laurell K. Hamilton
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. — C.S. Lewis
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone… — Aldous Huxley

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