Evils Quotes

Of two evils, choose neither. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus

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

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. — John Ruskin

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel De Cervantes

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase. — Pope Paul VI

It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils. — C.S. Lewis

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Amy Lowell

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. — Aldous Huxley

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. — Plautus

I could choose what kind of people I preyed on, but in the end, I had to prey on someone. The lesser of the two evils was still evil. — Julie Kagawa

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume. — Charles Caleb Colton

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press? — Upton Sinclair

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ... — Anais Nin

There are evils worse than death, — James F. Cooper

Of two evils, choose the more interesting. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The — Cormac McCarthy

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils. — Neal Shusterman

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. — Daniel Webster

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. — Epicurus

Sometimes the only course of action is the lesser of two evils. — Dan Brown

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. — Juvenal

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. — Alfred E. Smith

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit? — Narendra Modi

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them. — Voltaire

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all
the apathy of human beings. — Helen Keller

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. — James Joyce

To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry

The author of so many evils," he said. — Stephen King

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. — Ovid

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. — Andrew Mayne

Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment? — Manil Suri

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. — Charles Caleb Colton

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. — David Ricardo

Find another way; choosing the lessor of the evils still is evil. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor

Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die,
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ... — Jay-Z

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils. — Jon Stewart

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. — Pliny The Elder

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. — Martin Luther

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. — Pope Francis

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore De Balzac

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. — Henny Youngman

Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils. — Debasish Mridha

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. — Herman Melville

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them. — Philip Sidney

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils. — Thomas Holcroft

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. — E. M. Forster

[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]

The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . — Katherine Anne Porter

We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. — Pliny The Elder

In love there are two evils: war and peace. — Horace

Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth. — Robin S. Sharma

We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness. — Seneca.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. — Rajneesh

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. — William Law

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan — Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. — Robertson Davies

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. — John Henry Newman

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. — Tom Dreesen

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. — Francois Rabelais

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil. — Max Lerner

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave De Molinari

Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? — Jane Austen

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. — Alain De Botton

Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils. — William Shakespeare

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested. — Alexis De Tocqueville

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert

The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop. — Noam Chomsky

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them. — M.F. Moonzajer

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow — Morris Sheppard

Embrace the god of love to keep away the evils of hatred. — Debasish Mridha

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. — Luc De Clapiers

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not. — Will Rogers

Lesser of two evils. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Laziness is the mother of all evils. — Sophocles

Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it? — Eileen Wilks

As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils. — John Webster

It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'
-Connor — Neal Shusterman

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them. — Plutarch