An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.
Of two evils choose the least.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.
Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e. g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. . . they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Of two Evils we take the less.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.