Necessary Evil Quotes

54 quotes by 46 authors

Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison.… — Butch Vig
Government is a necessary evil — Thomas Paine
For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. — Ed Sheeran
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. — Robert Southey
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. — Franz Kafka
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have… — Jack White
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader… — Grant Morrison
Dialogue is a necessary evil. — Fred Zinnemann
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get… — Willem de Kooning
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think… — Johnny Depp
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for… — David Mamet
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. — Margaret Mead
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. — Mark Twain
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have… — Thomas Paine
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. — C.S. Lewis
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
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine

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