All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland`s solidarity movement could win, that the Iron Curtain would come down, that the Baltic states could be free, that the second of the 20th century`s great evils, communism, could be vanquished without war, but it happened and the West`s great institutions, NATO and the E. U. , grew to embrace 100 million liberated Europeans.
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
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.
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism. . . we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.