Words matter. These are the best Necessary Evil Quotes from famous people such as Mark Twain, Chris Cornell, Daniel Craig, Jimmy Carter, David Mamet, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
I’ve always felt like there’s a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people’s ears to hear. Over the years, I’ve just become more tolerant of that.
I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don’t think it is. I think it’s something you choose.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don’t know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have – nice things – but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But at the same time, I’m happy to live here. I want to have a good medical system, good education, good roads, so it’s a Catch 22. I hate it, but it’s a necessary evil.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
A very long time ago, I accepted that travel is just a necessary evil, and unlike many things in my life, I decided going with the flow would make it less painful.
A lot of companies think sales is, like, a necessary evil. Sales is really the most noble part of the business because it’s the part that brings the solution together with the customer’s need.
There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it’s so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.
