Evil Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Government is a necessary evil” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Government Inspirational Necessary evil Politics
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary. — James Cook Copy Share Image
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in it's abuses. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust… — Fred Woodworth Copy Share Image
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
