I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass. . . to stand up against such social evils.
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age. . . The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.