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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
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
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
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
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 apathy of human beings. — Helen Keller
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
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
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ... — Jay-Z
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
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
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
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.
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
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
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
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
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
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
So in this world there are degrees of devils. — John Webster