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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… — Annie Besant
• 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
• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will… — Jimmy Carter
• There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson
• Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and… — Sydney J. Harris
• THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• 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… — Unknown Author
• I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things… — Arthur C. Clarke
• Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke
• A baseball manager is a necessary evil. — Sparky Anderson
• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold
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