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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!
They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!
Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!
My hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future.
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
How many evils has religion caused!
[Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another.
I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
I hope that on Veterans Day people think about those who protect us from the evils out there.
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.