Greater Evil Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
— Herodotus
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
— Larry Wall
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Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
— William Vickrey
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I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the…
— Anne Bronte
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Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
— Vincent de Paul
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What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
— Publilius Syrus
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There is no greater evil than anarchy.
— Sophocles
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
— Sophocles
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the…
— Aristotle
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I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people…
— Judy Woodruff
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be…
— Blaise Pascal
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The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin…
— Richelle Mead
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There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
— Brian Jacques
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or…
— William Godwin
Who Wrote These Greater Evil Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Greater Evil Quotes as follows: