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There is no greater evil than anarchy. -- Sophocles
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. -- Herodotus
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. -- Blaise Pascal
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. -- William Godwin
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. -- Sophocles
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. -- William Vickrey
We can overcome evil with greater good. -- Laura Bush
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself. -- Saint Francis de Sales
You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. -- Phaedrus
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life? -- Publilius Syrus
There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider. -- Sophocles
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion. -- Thomas Jefferson
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil. -- Larry Wall
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. -- Baruch Spinoza
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. -- Abu Bakr
Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children. -- Alfred Adler
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. -- Baltasar Gracian
What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil. -- Henri Nouwen
The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil. -- Marcus Eremita
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. -- Sheri Holman
I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil. -- Vincent de Paul
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. -- Albert Einstein
There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious. -- Brian Jacques
a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen. -- Charles James Fox
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! -- Jeremiah Burroughs
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures. -- Epicurus
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people. -- William Penn
The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin? -- Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? -- Ted Dekker
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit. -- Al-Ghazali
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. . -- Aristotle
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. -- Frederic Bastiat
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction. -- Theodore Dreiser
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. -- Socrates
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice -- George Bernard Shaw
It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are. -- Tom Patton
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. -- Sophocles
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much -- Laozi
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind. -- Richelle Mead

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