Top 90 Evils Quotes

Imaginary evils are incurable.

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.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

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.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

It’s pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‘what can I give’ spirit.

The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war.

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

I’m just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

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.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

As a black person, I have two parties to choose from: liberal and conservative. If I choose to be a liberal – regardless of who I choose – I’m picking the lesser of two evils in my mind basically.

Escapees from Communist China and the Soviet Bloc have inoculated America from the evils of Marxism in the past, but it seems every generation needs a new lesson.

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

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I say I’m the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I’d like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys – I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils… Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it’s happening. There’s no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

I hope that on Veterans Day people think about those who protect us from the evils out there.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.