Quotes of: Necessary-evil Keyword

Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.

In the Dark Shadow of Evil: The Countess de Couvegne Letters

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Penn Jillette

If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it's evil. Cut it out.

Lynda Williams

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

John Cheever

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Jean Paul

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Norman Mailer

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Steven Saylor

Scotty: [Taunting Cheryl by whispering] Dead bodies in the cellar. Dead bodies in the... Cheryl: Will you stop it!

The Evil Dead

Cheryl: [possessed] Soon all of you will be like me... And then who will lock you up in a cellar? [cackles]

The Evil Dead

Linda: [possessed] It's useless! Useless! In time it will come for him and then it will come for you!

The Evil Dead

Ash: [as his evil sawn-off hand gives him the finger] Son of a...!

Evil Dead II

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Alton Brown

But remember, great Good will, more often than not, lead to great Evil.

Amish Tripathi

None of us asked for this life. I, of all people should know that our paths were chosen for us and we were just along for the ride, doing what was necessary and expected. There were far greater forces at work here. He was playing my heartstrings, whi...

Seeker of Fate

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern...

Alexander the Great

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

Corcitura

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Dispelling Wetiko

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

The Evil Garden

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

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