Calling Quote by Sydney J. Harris

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

— Richard Branson

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

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

— Matthew Scully

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

— Simone Weil

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

— Margaret Mead

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

— Blaise Pascal

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

— Luc de Clapiers

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

— St. Jerome

When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

“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