Necessary Evil Quotes
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
— Franz Kafka
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All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.
— Robert Fisk
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
— Michael Bloomberg
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
— Hannah Arendt
Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
— Dean Koontz
politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.
— J.D. Robb
Marriage is a necessary evil
— Amit Abraham
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
— F.H. Bradley
Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
— W. Somerset Maugham
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
— Lindsay Wagner
Failure isn't a necessary evil. In fact, it isn't evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new.
— Ed Catmull
Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.
— Richard Branson
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
— Gottfried Leibniz
I see the canvas and I begin ... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
— Willem De Kooning
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
— Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
— Zack Love
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.
— Reinhard Bendix
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
— Richard Rohr
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity
— John Nelson Darby
Love is a necessary evil that traps you in illusory gossamer
— Samreen Ahsan
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
— Peter Boghossian
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
— Antisthenes
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
— William Vickrey
The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing.
— Julie Kagawa
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
— James Cook
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
— Sparky Anderson
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
— William Wordsworth
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil ...
— Howard Zinn
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
— Christy Mathewson
When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.
— Simon R. Green
Government is a necessary evil
— Thomas Paine
The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.
— Edmond Burke
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?
— Joseph Sobran
A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.
— William Gibson
God is a necessary evil.
— Manoj Vaz
Dialogue is a necessary evil.
— Fred Zinnemann
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
— Thornton Wilder
It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.
— Charles F. Aked
I had a therapist once tell me to "sit with my shit," and I believe that to be a necessary evil of being constantly disappointed.
— Chelsea Handler
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.
— Kristen Connolly
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
— Margaret Mead
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence ... politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
— Bernard Crick
Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.
— Kate Atkinson
Only I knew the truth - I didn't enjoy killing. It was nothing more than a necessary evil in my world.My sin was being very good at it. — Lisa Kessler
I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
— Daniel Craig
Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
— Matthew Scully
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
— Thomas Paine
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
— Mark Twain
The law's a necessary evilwe canna be doing without it
but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? — Diana Gabaldon
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
— Saint John Chrysostom
