87 Evils Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Good Nature Man Will Evil Human Nature Evils No-One He Greater Human Prefer Might Choose Less Compelled Two

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

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

Man Experience Fate Will Fears Believe Our Everything Evils Divine Had Mortals Fair Force Voyage Cheers Knows Always How Friends Blow Same Whenever Then Whoever Ills Flood

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

Government Evils Only Abuse Exist Necessary

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. John James Audubon

Kindness Religion Will Rule Evils Practise Repay Forever Taught

We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them. Dianne Feinstein

Dark Not Perfect Past Our Evils Recognize Some Perfect Come Makes Fix Patches Them Grips Us Special

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. Sophocles

Tears Valuable Valuable Thing Evils Possible Would Would-Be Weeping Dead Were Cure Than Gold Lamentation Then Less Thing Raise

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

Reality Regret Worst Evils Uncertainty Until Makes Us Moment

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? Boethius

God Good Evils Cometh Any Whence Proceed Many

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. Daniel Webster

Political Evils Greatest Currency

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. Francis Bacon

Religion Unknown Evils Constant About Rather Rites Divisions Because Quarrels Were Than Heathen Any Ceremonies Reason Belief

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison

Life Nature Man Grief Humanity Enough Adding Our Evils Had Cruel Calamity Sorrows Another Continually Condition Subject Very Sown Common Aggravating Pains Treatment

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved! Marquis de Lafayette

Patriotism Fools Wicked Every Saved Hesitation France Weak Evils Compromises He Feels Frenchman Been Tardiness Than Produced Deputy Show Less Conscience Thinks Violence

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. Niccolo Machiavelli

You Guard Other Those Evils Must Disarmed Prince Contemptible Caused Disgraceful Being Which Against Among Things

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. Saul Bellow

War Money Evils Ability Instance Identification Go Survive To Survive Ever

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

Draw Evils Take Obviously Loss Going Then Lesser Two

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was the root cause of all these evils. While my father told me not to blame religion because of a few bad people, I wasn't convinced. The faith was restored after I started writing my first book. Amish Tripathi

Faith Religion Me Blame Book People Writing Bad People Cause Father College First Few Thinking Evils Bad Riots Restored Blast Because After Disillusioned While Root Convinced Mumbai Early Started

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. Bernice King

Racism Father Three Poverty Community Believe Our Later Evils Hopes Triple Remain Divided Consuming He Like Because Nonviolence Were Years Effects Antidote Fifty Militarism

Of two evils choose the prettier. Carolyn Wells

Evils Prettier Choose Two

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past. Charles M. Schwab

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children. Chen Guangcheng

Women Evils Silent Facing Women And Children Children Cannot Against

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. Dayananda Saraswati

Welfare Practice Virtue Adds Evils General Civilization General Welfare

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. Fanny Kemble

Sometimes Seen Power Duty Dangers Evils Lies Haunted Having Imperative Idea Institution Know Knowing Been Frightful Show

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