Quotes with evils

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  • Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Francis Bacon They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • John Tillotson Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Alphonse Karr Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Huey Newton We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Max Lerner When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Mae West Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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