Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff. . . We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.
We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have; Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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.
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
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. . .
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.