Evils Quotes
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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Evils draw men together.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
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They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
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I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
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You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
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The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.
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“The general object was to produce a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origins, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”
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The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
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The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
