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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. -- John Morley
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. -- Daniel Webster
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. -- Margaret Thatcher
Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning. -- Michael Ramirez
The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. -- Lincoln Steffens
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer. -- Ted Cruz
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. -- Jose Marti
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. -- Bram Cohen
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. -- David Mamet
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. -- David Gemmell
There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. -- Jon Meacham
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. -- William Penn
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. -- Edmund Burke
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. -- Geoffrey Hinton
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
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. -- Charles Krauthammer
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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