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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. — © Pliny the Elder
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.
Of two evils choose the least.
What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every single day, that are absolutely essential: the social commons, the social economy. It is all the activity we engage in to create social capital. It doesn't create capital market. Social commons is growing faster than the market place. It is growing faster than the market place. The social commons include any activity that is deeply social and collaborative.
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Of two Evils we take the less.
My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.
All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. — © Pope Pius V
All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.
Of two evils, choose the more interesting.
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
Evils draw men together.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
There are evils worse than death.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. — © Thomas a Kempis
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
The worst evils are those that never arrive.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract, which is the very foundation of the social-democratic social model.
Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality.
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser. — © Gene Stratton-Porter
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
How many evils have flowed from religion.
Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Of two evils, choose neither.
In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.
Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
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