Necessary Evil Quotes
54 quotes by 47 authors
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise…
— Annie Besant
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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
— Michael Bloomberg
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how…
— Jimmy Carter
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
— Andrew Jackson
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
— Sydney J. Harris
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do…
— Gail O'Grady
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I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
— Thom Yorke
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A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
— Sparky Anderson
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
— Christy Mathewson
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The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
— Benjamin Tucker
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Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
— Joseph Sobran
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
— Margaret Thatcher
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You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money…
— Huey Long
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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
— Carolyn Wells
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It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an…
— Rajneesh
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
— Aldous Huxley
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