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Evils draw men together. -- Aristotle
Of two Evils we take the less. -- Richard Hooker
And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils -- Jay-Z
Evils have their comfort, good none can support. -- George Herbert
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. -- Edmund Burke
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach. -- Thomas Paine
Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil. -- William Shakespeare
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. -- Jerry Garcia
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. -- Oscar Wilde
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. -- Huey Newton
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. -- Agatha Christie
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. -- Sophocles
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. -- Helen Keller
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. -- Plato
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. -- Edmund Burke
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. -- Swami Vivekananda
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. -- Susan Estrich
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. -- Herodotus
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! -- Jules Verne
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office. -- Roseanne Barr
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. -- Plato
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. -- Dennis Gabor
The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited. -- James E. Faust
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. -- Isaiah Berlin
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be. -- Johnny Depp
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -- Aeschylus
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. -- Baltasar Gracian
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. -- Georges Bataille
To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! -- Skrillex
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. -- Nostradamus
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. -- Ovid
Imaginary evils are incurable. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. -- Aldous Huxley
Of two evils, choose neither. -- Charles Spurgeon
Hidden evils are most dreaded. -- Martial
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are evils worse than death, -- James F. Cooper
Of two evils choose the prettier. -- Carolyn Wells
Some evils are cured by contempt. -- George Herbert
Of two evils choose the least. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Laziness is the mother of all evils. -- Sophocles
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. -- Francois Rabelais
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. -- John Henry Newman
Of two evils, choose the more interesting. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
The worst evils are those that never arrive. -- Samuel Johnson
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils. -- Livy
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
All evils are equal when they are extreme. -- Pierre Corneille
In politics evils should be remedied not revenged. -- Napoleon III
In a war between evils, only evil wins. -- Marty Rubin
The lesser of two evils is still evil. -- Solomon
To do wrong is the greatest of evils. -- Plato
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. -- Luc de Clapiers
California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils. -- Jon Stewart
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. -- Tulsidas
Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary. -- Richard Branson
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. -- Aeschylus
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. -- John Morley
we cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ... -- Anais Nin
To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils. -- Thomas Holcroft
Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils -- Ali R.A
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. -- C. S. Lewis
Of two evils we must always choose the least. -- Thomas a Kempis
In love there are two evils: war and peace. -- Horace
The greatest of all evils is a weak government -- Benjamin Disraeli
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils. -- Plato
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. -- H. L. Mencken
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. -- Tryon Edwards
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. -- Virgil
To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations. -- William Hazlitt
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. -- Voltaire
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. -- David Ricardo
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. -- Daniel Webster
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils. -- Bion of Borysthenes
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. -- Stevie Wonder
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward. -- Plautus
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. -- George Orwell
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. -- Thomas a Kempis
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. -- John Ruskin
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. -- Enoch Powell
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice. -- Thomas More
People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils. -- J. Lynn
Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral. -- Mahatma Gandhi
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -- Francis Bacon
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. -- Thomas a Kempis
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. -- Alexandre Dumas
All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. -- Pope Pius V
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. -- Pliny the Elder
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. -- George Bernard Shaw
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them. -- Plutarch
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils -- Charles Caleb Colton
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. -- John Adams
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children. -- Chen Guangcheng
Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. -- Ambrose Bierce
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish. -- Frederic Bastiat
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. -- Nathanael Emmons
I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils. -- Gene Weingarten
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils. -- Walter Scott
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!] -- Lucretius
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. -- John Ruskin
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. -- McGeorge Bundy
who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits -- Sun Tzu
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Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits. -- Sun Tzu

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