Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice. — Thomas More
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. — George Orwell
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. — Osho
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. — Wallace Stegner
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way. — Hunter S. Thompson
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. — Ayn Rand
If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less. — Ralph Nader
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
Short Two Evils Quotes
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. — Jewish Proverbs
When I have to choose between two evils, I always try to pick the one I haven't tried before. — Mae West
Evil draws men together. — Aristotle
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement. — Gerald Celente
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. — Mae West
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. — C. S. Lewis
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. — Baltasar Gracian
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils Quotes
If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice. — Michael Neill
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. — Morarji Desai
Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish. — Mike Colter
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil. — Max Lerner
It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. — Meg White
Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one. — Louis Farrakhan
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good. — Maimonides
I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers. — William B. Travis
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. — John Bosco
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men. — Ronald Reagan
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil But Good Quotes
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. — Richard Dawkins
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God. — David Hume
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. — Erich Fromm
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love. — Maximus the Confessor
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. — William Bernbach
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had. — Jerry Garcia
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. — Sophocles
Lesser Of Two Evils Quotes
The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore. — Ralph Nader
New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough. — Jill Stein
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. — Howard Dean
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. — McGeorge Bundy
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does. — Pope Francis
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. — Jerry Garcia
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Well, I'm against Bush. I'm definitely not pro-Bush. I think he's a maniac and a mad man, and I think he needs to go. As far as Kerry -- you know, I think that it really came down to a choice of the lesser of two evils, and unfortunately Bush won. — Roger Miret
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like. — Stephen King
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Edgar Rice Burroghs
The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils. — Naomi Wolf
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. — Alexandre Dumas
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
If two past lovers cannot remain friends, either they are still in love or never were
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. — Huey Newton
Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most. — Sitting Bull
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Every morning you pick between two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them. Good morning.
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land. — Francisco Franco
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. — George Bernard Shaw
Remember two matters and forget two matters;
1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death.
2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another — Luqman
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. — Thomas Carlyle
Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. — Tom Dreesen
The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote. — Aaron Russo
To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life. — Miroslav Volf
There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache. — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship. — Thomas Woods
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise. — Dion Fortune
The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so. — Aung San Suu Kyi
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils. — Samuel Beckett
A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. — Oscar Wilde
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so. — E. O. Wilson
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands. — George Orwell
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. — Robert Jordan
There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile. — Hannah More
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. — Oscar Wilde
I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it. — Anne Catherine Emmerich
We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. — Cassandra Clare
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