Quotes of: Necessary-evil Keyword

The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no understand.' Then I put you back in your cage.

I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic vi...

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all j...

Ted Naifeh

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive...

M. Scott Peck

Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, ...

Dean Koontz

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

The Eye of Moloch

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Turing & Burroughs

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

The Orphan Sky

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

Patton Oswalt

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