Necessity Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life.”

— Toba Beta

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…

— Edmund Burke

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

— Luc de Clapiers

“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as possible. It is as…

— M.E. Thomas

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

— Epicurus

“He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would…

— Cormac McCarthy

It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No…

— Frederick William Robertson

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was…

— Frederick William Robertson

“it takes evil for good to be recognized. evil is a necessity.”

— Kofi Ofosu-Ennin

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know…

— Gregory Maguire