A Quote by Otto von Bismarck

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. — © Otto von Bismarck
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
The lesser evil is also evil.
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