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Of two evils, choose neither.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.
Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.