Quotes on Two Evils

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

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.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

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.