I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact..
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine..
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell..
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial..
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive..
Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?.
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in t….
They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world..
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until ther….
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another..
And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 1….
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of ….
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism.
They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like….
Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - the….
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious..
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist..
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, i….
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range..
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them..