Quotes of: Greater-evil Keyword

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us.

Ricky Maye

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Eric Burdon

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

Elaine Pagels

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

George Orwell

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Jakob Bohme

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

William Penn

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who instigates good deeds is greater than the one who performs them.

Hebrew

Don't talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.

Spanish

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rus...

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not g...

Mahatma Gandhi