Quotes on the topic: Evils


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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.


One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.


I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.


Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.


Ignorance is the mother of all evils.


They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.


She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.


If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.


One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.


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.


The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.


A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.


Of two evils choose the prettier.


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


Of two evils, choose neither.


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


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


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


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


I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.