Choice Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Choice Evil Inspirational Love Statesmanship Statesmen
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
