Quotes with evils

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aeschylus My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Of two evils, choose neither.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Amy Lowell Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Pliny the Elder The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Aeschylus The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bodhidharma The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Mark Twain The lack of money is the root of all evils.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Junius The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Saul Bellow There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Andrew Jackson There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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