Top 100 Quotes About Evils
#1. 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
#2. I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#4. The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.
Theodore Dalrymple
#5. Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
#6. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Thomas Merton
#7. 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
#8. I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.
Euripides
#9. The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
Theodore Roosevelt
#10. But, I suppose without those evils there'd be no chance for us to do good, and doing good is what matters. Though it can be very frightening...
Peter Bunzl
#11. The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Jules Verne
#12. There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
Charles Caleb Colton
#13. They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions."
"Then why did you go into teaching?"
"It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils.
Brian Francis
#14. I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
Marquis De Custine
#15. Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."
Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.
Jim Butcher
#16. It promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils.
C.S. Lewis
#17. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
#18. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
Dorothy Day
#19. 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
#20. We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15
Martin Luther
#21. [Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall]
[He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, ... to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.
Josiah P. Mendum
#23. It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
John Adams
#24. The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
Ralph Nader
#25. As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#26. Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
Various
#27. If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
Simon Conway Morris
#28. A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#29. Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.
Socrates
#30. Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Philip Sidney
#31. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
Jane Austen
#32. 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
#33. Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to
procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#34. If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
Epicurus
#35. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Steven Wright
#36. In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley
#37. love of money is the root of all evils.' Timothy, six-ten.
John Sandford
#38. The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw
#39. 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
#40. We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
Theodore Roosevelt
#41. The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the
Jane Austen
#43. It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
Samuel Johnson
#44. All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
Teresa Of Avila
#45. The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Alfred E. Smith
#46. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
George Washington
#47. Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
Ayn Rand
#48. For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a
good, and makes goodness arise even from evils by
opposing them or enduring them with courage.
A.C. Grayling
#49. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster
#50. I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.
James Madison
#51. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
#52. Lying is the worst of all evils. Everything else that is diabolical comes from it.
Wilm Hosenfeld
#53. There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2
Joel L. Kraemer
#54. Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are ...
Swami Vivekananda
#55. The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#56. Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
Joseph Addison
#57. I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.
William B. Travis
#58. Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry
you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won.
Roger Miret
#60. It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Gautama Buddha
#61. As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#62. 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.
#63. Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Agatha Christie
#65. As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]
Tim Bishop
#66. Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.
Sean F. Hogan
#67. One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas Reed
#68. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Junius
#70. This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
Francois Fenelon
#71. I was left with the choice of wearing the pants either around my ankles or hitched up to my bellybutton. I decided the latter was the lesser of evils, so I went downstairs to have what would likely be the strangest meal of my life while dressed like a clown without makeup.
Ransom Riggs
#72. whenever you are transplanted, like me, Miss Woodhouse, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind. I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony.
Jane Austen
#73. It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
William Graham Sumner
#74. Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people - separated from the moral evils of the world.
Billy Graham
#75. Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Tryon Edwards
#76. None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
Albert Camus
#77. Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#78. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
#79. Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
Andrew Mayne
#80. BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,
And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day.
Christopher Marlowe
#81. I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
#82. Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Charles Caleb Colton
#83. Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.
Umberto Eco
#84. Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore
#85. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Francis Bacon
#86. It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever ...
William James
#87. Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.
Epictetus
#88. To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.
Samuel Johnson
#89. The words she sang were his. They told of evils in the world and an absent hero.
Katherine Starbird
#90. The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.
Matt Taibbi
#91. Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.
Charles Wesley
#93. An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.
Orson Pratt
#96. Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard Taft
#97. Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
#98. To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
Christopher Paolini
#99. A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#100. But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.
Leo Tolstoy
