Quotes of: Necessary-evil Keyword

The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education the answer to the removal of evil. These men had an intellect as well as a will; knowledge as well as...

Life of Christ

At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the whites, the blacks and the yellow races... More and more goods came into being, corresponding to each sect, race and class... People began to realise how mu...

Life and Fate

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Floyd Patterson

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But...

George R.R. Martin

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.

The Cost of Discipleship

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

The Courtship of Princess Leia

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil

What's next? You want to convince me they're making another crap Last Airbender movie?

The Evil We Love

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

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

People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love.

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Heaven and Earth

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

The Art of Counseling

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?

Howard Carter Saves the World

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

Ressentiment

It wasn't right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleaner and fabric softener

Riding the Storm

The Bible itself can be used for both good and evil. That doesn't mean it's flawed. It means that it is perfect.

Mickey and the Gargoyle

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Metaphysics: Concept and Problems

Man allowed by God to do good and evil. That's why some of angels feel so jealous.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut