Quotes of: Necessary-evil Keyword

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

Michael Moore

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip Zimbardo

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Robert Kazinsky

Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.

Duncan William Gibbons

Ash: You bastards, why are you torturing me like this? Why?

The Evil Dead

If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you

American Horror Story

There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how...

Catch 22

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of i...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

[Bruce is refusing to demonstrate his commitment to justice by executing a criminal] Ra's Al Ghul: You cannot lead these men unless you are prepared to do what is necessary to defeat evil. Bruce Wayne: And where would I be leading these men? Ra's Al ...

Batman Begins

It is more fun doing evil than putting it right.

Nigerian

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Traditional

Too many of the elderly do not have the family or the communal attachments necessary to feel valued; too many are widowed or otherwise alone; too many live in surroundings where they are essentially without the companionship necessary to stimulate a ...

Sherwin B. Nuland

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

The Stars My Destination

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.

Stanley Hauerwas

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Richard Bach

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw

Joey Gazelle: [after Teresa confesses to killing the pedophiles] Why couldn't you just have taken the kid and left? Why couldn't you just have taken the kid and left? Teresa Gazelle: I have never seen evil before tonight, Joe. Real fucking evil. Okay...

Running Scared

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure....

Abraham Lincoln