Better things Quote by William Howard Taft

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

— Calvin Coolidge

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

— Francis Bacon

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

— Tryon Edwards

Judging the existence by comparison is not always the best pathway to progress.

— Mariana Fulger

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

— Jacopo Sannazaro

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things…

— Francis Bacon

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

— Bruce Cockburn

“Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.”

— C.S. Lewis

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Richard Branson