Quotes About Necessary Evils

#1. 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

#2. Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.

Doug Harvey

#3. I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

Grant Morrison

#4. I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Richard Branson

#6. Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.

Matthew Scully

#7. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

#8. Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Doron Zeilberger

#10. Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

C.S. Lewis

#11. This time you aren't escaping. It's time for a heart transplant.

Poppet

#12. 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

#13. A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

Grant Heslov

#14. We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

Libba Bray

#15. I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

Richard Simmons

#16. When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#17. Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Edward De Bono

#18. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Knowing all and having the necessary tools are two different things. This is hardly a hospital. We make do with what we have, and none of that is Mahlia's fault. Tani is the victim of many evils, but Mahlia is not the beginning of that chain, nor the end. I am responsible, if anyone is.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#20. When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Jules De Goncourt

#21. One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
- Poppy (quoting Win)

Lisa Kleypas

#22. However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them
-- Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Illidge

#24. My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the beat selection that puts me in a down south mind frame.

King Louie

#25. You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

Kody Keplinger

#26. 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