Evil Quote by Matthew Scully

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

— Luc de Clapiers

When a person, group, or a government is speaking of necessary evils they must first realize that no evil is truly necessary. It may…

— Aaron Lee

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

— Epicurus

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

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

— Richard Branson

“The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome…

— Peace Pilgrim

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

— Herbert Spencer

Necessity creates everything in my life.

— Christian Louboutin

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable…

— Anton Chekhov

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

— Simone Weil

“O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death! The ultimate evil…

— John Gardner