Top 1200 Necessary Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But at the same time, I'm happy to live here. I want to have a good medical system, good education, good roads, so it's a Catch 22. I hate it, but it's a necessary evil.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

Communion is as necessary for us to sustain our Christian vitality, as the vision of God is necessary to the angels, to maintain their life of glory.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.